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
catching follow pattern
In mathematics, everything is in procedures, and if you don't follow the right procedure, you won't get the right answer. There's a pattern. And there's a pattern in catching and throwing, too. You have to follow the right pattern.
mathematics program trouble tutor
If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.
coin flip game last win
I thought we were going to come back and win the game all the way. It was a flip of the coin game that last inning.
deceived men rock
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!
heaven ghost hell
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.
christian college years
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.
heart feet people
You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
want trouble ifs
If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.
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.