William Booth

“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!”

“Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.”

“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.”

“The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.”

“Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.”

“But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?”

“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.”

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

“The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.”

“The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.”