Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
BILLY SUNDAYThe 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.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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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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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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When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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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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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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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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You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
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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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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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If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch
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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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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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One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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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 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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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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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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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 devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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