The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
BILLY SUNDAYThe backslider likes the preaching that wouldn’t hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.
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The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
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I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
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There is a mighty power in a mother’s hand. There’s more power in a woman’s hand than there is in a king’s scepter. And there is a mighty power in a mother’s kiss – inspiration, courage, hope, ambition, in a mother’s kiss.
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We’re not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.
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Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.
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I don’t believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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