Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
BILLY SUNDAYAfter all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
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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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If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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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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One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
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Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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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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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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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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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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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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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 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 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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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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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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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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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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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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