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.
BILLY SUNDAYThe fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God’s Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I’ll quit preaching.
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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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One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
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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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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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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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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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When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
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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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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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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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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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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 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 fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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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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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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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 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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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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