Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

Catherine Booth (Co-founder of the Salvation Army, 1829 – 1890)

I don’t believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.

Catherine Booth (Co-founder of the Salvation Army, 1829 – 1890)

A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!

Catherine Booth (Co-founder of the Salvation Army, 1829 – 1890)

Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don’t wake anybody up. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work – to wake people up.

Catherine Booth (Co-founder of the Salvation Army, 1829 – 1890)

Whatever the particular call is, the particular sacrifice God asks you to make, the particular cross He wishes you to embrace, whatever the particular path He wants you to tread, will you rise up, and say in your heart, “Yes, Lord, I accept it; I submit, I yield, I pledge myself to walk in that path, and to follow that Voice, and to trust Thee with the consequences”? Oh! but you say, “I don’t know what He will want next.” No, we none of us know that, but we know we shall be safe in His hands.

Catherine Booth (Co-founder of the Salvation Army, 1829 – 1890)

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

Catherine Booth (Co-founder of the Salvation Army, 1829 – 1890)

You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!

Catherine Booth (Co-founder of Salvation Army, 1829 – 1890)

When I had forgotten God, yet I then found He had not forgotten me. Even then He did by His Spirit apply the merits of the great atonement to my soul, by telling me that Christ died for me.

Susanna Wesley (John Wesley’s Mother, 1669 – 1742)

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.

Susanna Wesley (John Wesley’s Mother, 1669 – 1742)

Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church… nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence.

Susanna Wesley (John Wesley’s Mother, 1669 – 1742)