75 Quotes by William Booth

Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us.

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

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.