The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
BILLY SUNDAYA 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!
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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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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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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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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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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If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.
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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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Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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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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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 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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One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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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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