“What are you living for? What is the deep secret purpose that controls and fashions your existence? What do you eat and drink for? What is the end of your marrying and giving in marriage – your money making and toilings and plannings? Is it the salvation of souls, the overthrow of the kingdom of evil and the setting up of the Kingdom of God? Have you the assurance that the ruling passion of your life is the same as that which brought Christ to the manger, led Him to fight the foul fiend of Hell in the wilderness, bore Him onward on the back of suffering and tears and ignominy and shame, sustained Him in drinking the cup of anguish and entering the baptism of blood, bore him through Gethsemane, nailed Him to the cross of Calvary and enabled Him in triumph to open the gate of the kingdom? Is this what you are living for? If not, you may be religious – a very proper person amongst religionists – but I don’t see how you can be a Christian.”

William Booth