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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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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
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Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
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While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight.
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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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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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Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.
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I will tell you the secret. God has had all there was of me.
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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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... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.
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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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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
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Some of my best men are women!
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I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!
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Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
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I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.
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You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
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If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.
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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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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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The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
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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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