Catherine Booth

Catherine Booth Popular Christianity

What an inveterate tendency there is in the human heart to trust in outward forms, instead of seeking the inward grace! And where this is the case, what a hindrance, rather than help, have these forms proved to the growth, nay, to the very existence, of that spiritual life which constitutes the real and only force of Christian experience!It is a calamity deeply to be deplored that men should thus put the form in the place of the power, but they have always been doing so. Catherine Booth