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 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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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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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 believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
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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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When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We’re not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.
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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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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 are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.
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