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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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If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.
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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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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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Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
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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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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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Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
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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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God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
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I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.
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Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
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We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.
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I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!
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Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.
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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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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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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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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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If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.
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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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