I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
BILLY SUNDAYWe have a God who delights in impossibilities.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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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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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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The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
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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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If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
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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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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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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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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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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 rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery…. It is God’s worst enemy and the devil’s best friend.
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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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I don’t believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
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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 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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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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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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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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The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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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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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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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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It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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