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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!

Billy Sunday

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
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Criminals Policemen Reason Same
When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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People Revival Sports
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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Christian Inspirational Long
If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
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Christianity Joy Leaking Somewhere
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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Believe Church Sports Today
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
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Devil Rewards Sports
There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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Divine Law Respect Sports
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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Cold Heart Region Two Years
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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Marriage Trying Wife
The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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Debtors Forgiving World
It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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Big Things Bigs
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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Hand Kings Mom Mother Power Scepter
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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Joy Men Religion
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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Fall Land Trying
I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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Almighty Saloons Sports
Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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Church Half Needs
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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Hell Minister Names
Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.
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Jesus Mean Vision
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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Littles Monkeys Parrot People
And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don’t know me yet.
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Christian Fear Thinking
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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Behind Finals Something Summons Tombstone
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
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Poor Poverty Wealth
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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Christian House Inspirational Real
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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Republican Temperance Toes
When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
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Christian Grieving Sports
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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Factories Men Want
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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Believe Names Taken

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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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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