If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
– Catherine Booth
Evangelism
Here is the principle – adapt your measures to the necessity of the people to whom you minister. You are to take the Gospel to them in such modes and circumstances as will gain for it from them a hearing.
– Catherine Booth
Evangelism | Circumstances | The Gospel
There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.
– Catherine Booth
Perseverance | The Future
He may not be able to put together two sentences of the Queen’s English, but if he can say that he has been born again, if he can say “once I was blind but now I see”, he will do for The Salvation Army.
– Catherine Booth
Evangelism
I know not what He is about to do with me, but I have given myself entirely into His hands.
– Catherine Booth
Faith
If Christ cannot supersede the Law, then I am lost, and lost forever.
– Catherine Booth
Atonement
The more you lead me up to Christ in all things, the more highly shall I esteem you, and if it be possible to love you more than I do now, the more shall I love you.
– Catherine Booth
Love
The curse, of this age especially, is unbelief, frittering the real meaning of God’s word away, and making it all figure and fiction.
– Catherine Booth
Unbelief
The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received, into the mind, as I should receive a system of philosophy, or astronomy, but it represents Him as a real, living, mighty Savior, able to save me now.
– Catherine Booth
Salvation | The Gospel
Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will gnash on us with his teeth.
– Catherine Booth
Evangelism | Satan
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.
– Catherine Booth
Service | Business
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
– Catherine Booth
Faithful
I don’t believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.
– Catherine Booth
Religion | Service
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 labor for the souls of men.
– Catherine Booth
Service | Love