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.
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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You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
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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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When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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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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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 a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.
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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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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 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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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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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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