An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
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 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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I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.
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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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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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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 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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Jesus Christ was God’s revenue officer.
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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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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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It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
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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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I pity anyone who can’t laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can’t laugh.
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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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Some ministers say, ‘If you don’t repent you’ll die and go to a place the name of which I can’t pronounce.’ I can! You’ll go to hell!
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