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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.

William Booth

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
Preacher
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Souls
Harmony
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Holy
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Baptism

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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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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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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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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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God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
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I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.
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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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... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.
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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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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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