The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
BILLY SUNDAYThe 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.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
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I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world’s heart for two thousand years.
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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
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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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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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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
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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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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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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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The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
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Jesus Christ was God’s revenue officer.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery…. It is God’s worst enemy and the devil’s best friend.
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You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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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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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 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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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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