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.
BILLY SUNDAYI believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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I don’t believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
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You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
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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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The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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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 English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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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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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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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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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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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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If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
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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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Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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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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Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.
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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
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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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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 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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