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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.

William Booth

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
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Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
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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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I must go, not only to those who need me, but to those who need me most.
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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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If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.
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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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Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
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I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!
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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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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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Some of my best men are women!
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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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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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Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.
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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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