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.
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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 endWilliam Booth
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.
William Booth
Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
William Booth
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.
William Booth
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
William Booth
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!
William Booth
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