When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
BILLY SUNDAYI believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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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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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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The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
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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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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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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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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 dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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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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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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The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
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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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Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
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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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More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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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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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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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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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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