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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.

William Booth

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
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Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
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Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.
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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 am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!
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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 go, not only to those who need me, but to those who need me most.
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While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight.
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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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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
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If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.
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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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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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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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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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Some of my best men are women!
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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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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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