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.

If Christ cannot supersede the Law, then I am lost, and lost forever.

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

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

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.

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

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

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!

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

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.