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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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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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It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.
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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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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
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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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Some of my best men are women!
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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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The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
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Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
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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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I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.
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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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Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
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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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Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
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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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You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
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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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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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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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