The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
BILLY SUNDAYI am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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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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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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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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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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And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don’t know me yet.
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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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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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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 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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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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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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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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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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More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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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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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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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
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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 the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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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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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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