William Booth Quotes

With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical needs met. My goodness, he was ready to have you lop off your hand! His real interest was in healing the soul.

Our body is the temple of our spirit.

If you're not settled spiritually, things can be a little bit more chaotic than normal.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Amboyna seems to present the most favorable opening. Fifty thousand souls are there perishing without the means of life, and the situation of the island is such that a mission there established might, with the blessing of God, be extended to the neighboring islands in those seas.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.