20 Quotes by Catherine Booth
Catherine Booth was a pioneering social reformer and co-founder of The Salvation Army, an organization that has had a profound impact on the lives of the less fortunate. Born in the 19th century, Booth's passionate commitment to social justice and her deep Christian faith drove her to address the plight of the impoverished and marginalized in society. Alongside her husband, William Booth, she established The Salvation Army, which sought to provide practical assistance and spiritual guidance to those in need, irrespective of their background or circumstances.
Catherine Booth played a key role in challenging societal norms that perpetuated poverty and inequality, advocating for women's rights, and empowering them to take leadership positions within the organization. Her tireless efforts and vision for a compassionate society have left an enduring legacy, and The Salvation Army continues to serve vulnerable communities worldwide. Catherine Booth's dedication to uplifting the downtrodden and her unwavering belief in the potential for positive change continue to inspire humanitarian work and advocacy for social justice to this day.
Catherine Booth Quotes
You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!
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. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work - to wake people up.
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.
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.
What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.
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.
The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received into the mind like I should receive a system of philosophy, or astronomy, but it represents Him as a beal, living, mighty Saviour, able to save me now.
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.
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in the world is done by men who never taste anything but vegetable, farinaceous food, and that of the simplest kind. There are more strength-producing properties in wholemeal flour, peas, beans, lentils, oatmeal, roots, and other vegetables of the same class, than there are beef or mutton, poultry or fish, or animal food of any description whatever.
Do not give way to lowness while you are young. Rise up on the strength of God and resolve to conquer.
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.
If Christ cannot supersede the Law, then I am lost, and lost forever.
― Catherine Booth Quotes
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