75 Quotes by William Booth

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

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

Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

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!

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

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.

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?

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