God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
BILLY SUNDAYThe fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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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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It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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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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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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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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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
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The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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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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Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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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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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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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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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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If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
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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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The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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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 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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