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 SUNDAYThe law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
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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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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
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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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The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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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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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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Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
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I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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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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If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
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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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