Quotes from William Booth

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.

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

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?

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

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

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

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

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

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

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

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!

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

Some of my best men are women!

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.

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.