Booth Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.

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

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

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!

You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!

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!

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

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

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need.

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

I don't believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end!

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

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

We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

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

And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof.

I must go, not only to those who need me, but to those who need me most.

... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.

Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek.

Show mercy. No soul ever was made poor by loving too much, or injured by forgiving too often.

Do not give way to lowness while you are young. Rise up on the strength of God and resolve to conquer.

I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.

Some of my best men are women!

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

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

It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in any sort of dish that will induce the people to partake of it

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

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

It is not how many years we live, but what we do with them.