Catherine Booth Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

I don't believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.

The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received, into the mind, as I should receive a system of philosophy, or astronomy, but it represents Him as a real, living, mighty Savior, able to save me now.

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

It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in the world is done by men who never taste anything but vegetable, farinaceous food, and that of the simplest kind. There are more strength-producing properties in wholemeal flour, peas, beans, lentils, oatmeal, roots, and other vegetables of the same class, than there are beef or mutton, poultry or fish, or animal food of any description whatever.