William Booth Quotes (19 Quotes)


    If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

    In mathematics, everything is in procedures, and if you don't follow the right procedure, you won't get the right answer. There's a pattern. And there's a pattern in catching and throwing, too. You have to follow the right pattern.

    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.

    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!

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



    It's important. We play that second one because in a tie that's how we see who goes.

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

    In answer to your inquiry, 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.

    I just wanted to follow successful programs and I always want our kids to play the very best competition. I want them to take pride in who they play.

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

    It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages

    There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.

    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?

    What then is there left for me to do Not count the weeks, the days and the hours which will bring me again into her sweet company.

    I thought we were going to come back and win the game all the way. It was a flip of the coin game that last inning.

    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 labour.

    While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight, I'll fight to the very end

    A man's labour is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilise it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks . . .


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