I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world’s heart for two thousand years.
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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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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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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Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you’ve reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
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God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
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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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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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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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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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Jesus Christ was God’s revenue officer.
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
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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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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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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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When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.
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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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It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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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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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
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You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
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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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