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Whenever 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.

Billy Sunday

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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Florida Party Sports
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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Country Fame God Mother Name Reach
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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Cause Church Conviction Men Sports Sunday
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
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Devil Rewards Sports
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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Fall Land Trying
Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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Cash Character People
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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Church Dormitory Lines
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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Republican Temperance Toes
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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Cold Heart Region Two Years
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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Hand Kings Mom Mother Power Scepter
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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Marriage Trying Wife
I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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Dare Exercise Liberty
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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Christian House Inspirational Real
Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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Church Mean Membership
If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
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Christianity Joy Leaking Somewhere
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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Littles Monkeys Parrot People
If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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Country Prayer Revival Stranger
Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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Church Half Needs
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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Enemy Liquor Sports
The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
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Biblical Knows Reason
It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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Big Things Bigs
I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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Almighty Saloons Sports
You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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Envelope Lying Paying
You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
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Biceps Lines Tape
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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Adversity Cheer Liars
I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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Believe God Unconcern
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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Believe Church Sports Today

Whenever 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.

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Whenever 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.

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