William Booth Quotes

You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.

If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.

I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!

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

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.

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.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

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.

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

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!

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!

Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end!

What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.

I must go, not only to those who need me, but to those who need me most.

... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.

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.

Some of my best men are women!

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

I will tell you the secret. God has had all there was of me.

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.

Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.

Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?

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.

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.

I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight.

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.

The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.