America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
BILLY SUNDAYThe 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.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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After 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.
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The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
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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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If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
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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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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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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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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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The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
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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 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 homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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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 want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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