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William Booth Biography

William Booth (10 April 1829 – 20 August 1912) was an English Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became its first General (1878–1912). 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. In 2002, Booth was named among the 100 Greatest Britons in a BBC poll.

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

Israelites, Moses, Operated, Red, Sea, Success

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

Faith, God, Heart, Man, Passion

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.

Abhorrent, Incorrigibly, Lazy, Men, Passion

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.

Ghost, Heaven, Hell, Repentance

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.

Ear, Fire, Heart, Humanity, Sinners

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

Children, Dark, Fight, Girl, Left, Weep

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.

Bible, Christian, College, Prepare, Send, Years

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.

Adoration, Army, Heart, Today

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

Dark, Fighting, God, Light, Remains

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.

Ability, Generations, Glory, Long, Use

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!

Appearances, Deceived, Men, Rocks, Sea, Things

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.

Bird, Elephants, Mother, Pretty, Reused, Stuff

There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.

Coming, Ghost, Heaven, Hell

I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.

Assert, Body, Primarily, Saving, Seek, Soul

I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.

Army, Help, Mean, Promise, Promises, Salvation

You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.

Cold, Feet, Heart, Hearts, People

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

Change, Ifs, Present, Trouble, Want

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!

Lord, Soul, Thought, Toes, Winning

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

Fight, Fighting, Hungry, Revival, Weep, Women

I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!

Moving, Waiting, Move, God

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