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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.

William Booth

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
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It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
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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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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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If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.
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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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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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It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.
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I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!
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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 you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.
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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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Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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