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.
BILLY SUNDAYThere is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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 reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
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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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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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More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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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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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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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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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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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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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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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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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
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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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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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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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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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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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