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I will tell you the secret. God has had all there was of me.

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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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You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
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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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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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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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Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
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Some of my best men are women!
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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
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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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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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The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
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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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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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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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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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It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.
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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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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.
William Booth