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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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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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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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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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I must go, not only to those who need me, but to those who need me most.
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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
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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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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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If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!
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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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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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Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
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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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While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight.
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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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What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?
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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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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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Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls
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No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse has done his duty. A defense is required for services within buildings rather than for worship outside of them.
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I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.
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