The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
BILLY SUNDAYWhenever 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.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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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 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 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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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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Jesus Christ was God’s revenue officer.
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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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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When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
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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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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
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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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