You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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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I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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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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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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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 law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
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The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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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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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 tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
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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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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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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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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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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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Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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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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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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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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Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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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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If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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