God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot — and some of you people.
BILLY SUNDAYThe 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.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!
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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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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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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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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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When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
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The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
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Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing – open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way – that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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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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Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.
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