William Booth Quotes

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.

Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

You must never tire fighting Satan.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Too often the word 'prayer' induces guilt because we don't do enough of it. After all, I've never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.

My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.

I pray almost every day, and you can see that I pray on the pitch. I pray in the dressing room. That is just part of my life.

We pray before everything - videos, onstage, TV shows. I think that has a lot to do with being successful.

I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.

After 'The Hurt & The Healer', we kind of hit a wall. I grew up in a somewhat legalistic church and it taught me that faith is enough, but here's three more things left just in case. There's always things left to do to be closer to God.

I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.

The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!