Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
BILLY SUNDAYThe 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.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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 the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
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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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The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn’t hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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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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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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I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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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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It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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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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Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.
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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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Jesus Christ was God’s revenue officer.
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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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When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
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And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don’t know me yet.
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