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 SUNDAYYou can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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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 tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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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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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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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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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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Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
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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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I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world’s heart for two thousand years.
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I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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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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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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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 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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Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We’re not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.
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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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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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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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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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It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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