What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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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Some ministers say, ‘If you don’t repent you’ll die and go to a place the name of which I can’t pronounce.’ I can! You’ll go to hell!
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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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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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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Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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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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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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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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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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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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If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
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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 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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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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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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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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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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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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If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
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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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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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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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