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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!

William Booth

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
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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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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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If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.
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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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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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I will tell you the secret. God has had all there was of me.
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