William Booth Quotes

William Booth's page feels fierce, urging readers to confront struggle and purpose.

18 quotes

1. Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?

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

3. My business is to get the world saved. If this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories and the staying of the sailing ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted, they can go on again.

4. The Army of the Revolution is recruited by the Soldiers of Despair.

5. Go for souls and go for the worst.

6. 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.

7. There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.

8. A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

9. 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?

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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!

13. There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.

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

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

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

17. 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.

18. 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.