William Booth
William Booth
William Boothwas a British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became its first General. The Christian movement with a quasi-military structure and government founded in 1865 has spread from London, England, to many parts of the world and is known for being one of the largest distributors of humanitarian aid...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth10 April 1829
prayer mean wrestling
You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God. This kind of prayer be sure the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose. They will pour water on this flame.
secular-music devil doe
Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us.
heart fire needs
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.
winning soul toes
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!
soul saving want
Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
long use benefits
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.
soul missionary motto
Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
success sea red
If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.
fire soul looks
Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.
heaven ghost hell
There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.
girl heart ideas
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.
army men clean
... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.
army devil tunes
Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
work men civilization
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.