Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
BILLY SUNDAYI am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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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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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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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 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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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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One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
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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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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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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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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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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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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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