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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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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 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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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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Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.
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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
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While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight.
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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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I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.
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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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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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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 will tell you the secret. God has had all there was of me.
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Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
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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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