Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
BILLY SUNDAYThe Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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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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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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It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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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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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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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 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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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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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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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.
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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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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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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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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 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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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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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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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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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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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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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 fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
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