Catherine Booth

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

“It is a great mistake to suppose that the dead sleep in the grave.”

“You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!”

“When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers.”

“Sympathy is a sweet thing.”

“The wife is the sun of the social system. Unless she attracts, there is nothing to hold it together.”

“Many a woman is languishing for want of something to do.”

“If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.”

“If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.”

“What the Lord wants is, that you should go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.”

“The best of men are but men at the best.”

“It is a favourite plea of men that they have not time to attend to religion. But they have time to build houses, time to buy and sell... time to eat and drink and be merry.”