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.
BILLY SUNDAYWhenever 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.
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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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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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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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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The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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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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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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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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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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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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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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