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.
BILLY SUNDAYWhen may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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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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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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Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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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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Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God’s Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I’ll quit preaching.
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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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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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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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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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