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... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
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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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Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
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It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
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Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.
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While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end!
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Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
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The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
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You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
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There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.
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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 is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.
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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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While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight.
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A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
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Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.
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If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.
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The tendency of fire is to go out watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.
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Some of my best men are women!
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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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I must go, not only to those who need me, but to those who need me most.
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