William Booth Quotes

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell.

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.

But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there's only one Savior.

According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.

When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.

We came not here to view your works In hopes to be more wise, But only, lest we go to Hell, It may be no surprise.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.