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 SUNDAYIf you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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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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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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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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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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Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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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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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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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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Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
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You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
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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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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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