God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
William BoothRead
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.
Interpretation
True transformation comes from within and cannot be achieved through external measures alone.
In this quote, William Booth emphasizes that mere external improvements, such as better clothing, stable employment, or education, do not lead to genuine change in a person. He suggests that true change requires an internal transformation, a deeper spiritual or moral renewal that aligns with divine qualities. Thus, the essence of a person's nature must be addressed to create lasting change and fulfillment.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth and development.
God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek.
Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
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.
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!
If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!
A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.
I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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