You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
BILLY SUNDAYI believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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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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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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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 saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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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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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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Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
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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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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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God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
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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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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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If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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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 no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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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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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 am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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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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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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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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Jesus Christ was God’s revenue officer.
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You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
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