"The great need in this day is truth that cuts -- convincing truth -- truth that convicts and convinces the sinner and pulls off the bandages from his eyes." --Catherine Booth

"What does it amount to, if the black man, after having been made free by the letter of your law, is unable to exercise that freedom; and having been freed from the slaveholder's lash, he is to be subject to the slaveholder's shotgun?" -Frederick Douglas, 1876

"The heroes of the early church were not Crusaders, not warriors, not men of the sword but rather martyrs, men and women with the faith and courage to face lion, ax, cross, chain, whip, and fire as testimony to their allegiance -- not to the standards of this world but to the standards of the Kingdom of God. Like Jesus they would rather suffer violence than inflict it." --Brian D. McLaren

"I came to see that military organization might be applied with very great effect to religious work." --William Booth

"We don't have music hall tunes enough. We are getting too respectable, greatly to my regret." --William Booth

"Why should the devil have all the good music?" --William Booth

"No matter how much you do, if you stop short of getting a man's soul saved all is vain -- vain. The first great principle is to give deliverance. No amount of amelioration will suffice if you stop short of deliverance." --William Booth

Quotes from the book: "The Rise Of The Quakers" by T. Edmund Harvey

"The confidence with which the early Quakers proclaimed their prophetic character may shock us, who are so cautious and lukewarm in expressing our convictions." --T. Edmund Harvey

"The early Quakers felt that the professing Christians about them were honoring a far off Savior who was not realized as having any actual influence on their lives." --T. Edmund Harvey

"The early Quakers speak with authority as having firm hold of Him who is invisible. They are prophets, denouncing the evil and opening up the way of truth as messengers of God." --T. Edmund Harvey