William Booth

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“Here, young men and young women, you are thinking about this cadet business, and I am not suprised at it either. What is trade and shop keeping, and emigration and marriage and money making and – and anything else compared with this business of war?” ~ William Booth

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“I want you to stand up more boldly and firmly than you ever have done for the great object which God has made The Salvation Army for” (1908 - Birthday Message)

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Catherine Booth on war:

"Love must win. This is the mighty force of the future. This is the force that is going to drive sin & misery out of the world, [...] love that suffers & sacrifices & dies- the force that has its origin in the heart of Jesus Christ" (A Passion for Souls - 1892)

“The ungodly world would be very pleased for the impression to be made that the power of the Army results from its charitable operations, and not from its Spiritual life”

“If I did not think that the Lord was in this movement I would have nothing more to do with it and much less would I ask you to carry on with it” (1886)

“When methods fail they must be abandoned” (The Future of missions, the mission of the future - 1889)

“You won’t turn the world upside down by any cut-and-dries orders & regulations, by any services or ceremonials, unless you have people who possess the turning-upside-down-spirit. Then, having the spirit, purpose & consecration of the apostles you may hope for apostolic success”

Let us not be drawn aside by any inferior ends

“As I have already said, we do not pretend we have finished our education. War is a wonderful schoolmaster, and he is unworthy of the name soldier who does not continually seek to learn from foes as well as friends how most completely and rapidly to conquer”

“Why all this apparatus of temples and meeting houses to save men from perdition in a world which is to come, while never a helping hand is stretched out to save them from the inferno of their present life?”

“The success of our work is not in its methods - not that we have captains and generals, which are the mere necessities and particular forms of work, not in our flags and banners and music, but it is in the spiritual life which the Lord has been pleased to grant” (1880)

“You Dreamers! You Robert Elsmere people! You people who have these humanitarian wishes and scheming on your brain! You have stolen the idea of our heaven & now you want to get men and women into it without Jesus Christ” (The Future of Missions & the Mission of the Future,1889)

My life had been joyless, and useless, for years.

“Whenever and wherever God’s Spirit dwells, there will love hold victorious sway; that is, men will love God with all the heart, and each other as themselves, and they will make this manifest in all their outward conduct” (‘The Millennium’, All the World, 1890)