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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
Surrender
Measure
Greatness
Religion
Inspirational
Power
Men

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Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek.
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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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Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.
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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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Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
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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 make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.
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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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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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If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.
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Some of my best men are women!
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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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Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
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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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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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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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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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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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