God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
William BoothRead
... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.
Interpretation
What this quote means
True change comes from within, not from superficial actions.
This quote by William Booth emphasizes the importance of internal transformation rather than merely addressing external appearances. It suggests that genuine improvement in character or behavior requires deeper efforts than just surface-level alterations, urging us to focus on personal growth and moral responsibility instead of relying on superficial measures to gauge someone's worth or cleanliness.
Themes
ChangeTransformationInternalSuperficialGrowth
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a speech about personal development.
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Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.
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To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.
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Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
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