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

William Booth (Preacher, 1829 – 1912)

Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.

William Booth (Preacher, 1829 – 1912)

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

William Booth (Preacher, 1829 – 1912)

I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind that God should have all of William Booth there was. And if there is anything of power in the Salvation Army, 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.

William Booth (Preacher, 1829 – 1912)

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.

William Booth (Preacher, 1829 – 1912)

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

William Booth (Preacher, 1829 – 1912)

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.

William Booth (Preacher, 1829 – 1912)

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.

William Booth (Preacher, 1829 – 1912)

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.

William Booth (Preacher, 1829 – 1912)

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.

William Booth (Preacher, 1829 – 1912)