William Booth
William Booth
William Boothwas a British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became its first General. 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth10 April 1829
men giving way
To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.
soul saving want
Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
long use benefits
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.
winning soul toes
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!
inspirational letting-go greatness
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
art passion men
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
men legs firsts
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.
men sea rocks
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!
faith passion heart
God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
secular-music devil doe
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.
want trouble ifs
If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.
prayer mean wrestling
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.
moving waiting
I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!
jesus heart army
I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind that God should have all of William Booth there was. And if there is anything of power in the Salvation Army, 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.