Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
BILLY SUNDAYGod Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
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God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot — and some of you people.
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I pity anyone who can’t laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can’t laugh.
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I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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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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The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers’ names in God’s Hall of Fame.
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Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
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The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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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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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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