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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

William Booth

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
Preacher
Theologian
Measure
Greatness
Religion
Inspirational
Power
Men
Surrender

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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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You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
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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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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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I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!
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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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If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.
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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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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 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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