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Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
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Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
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Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us.
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I will tell you the secret. God has had all there was of me.
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Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don't be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across.
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Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
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There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.
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I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.
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Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.
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Some of my best men are women!
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Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation.
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Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.
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