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.
BILLY SUNDAYSinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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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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If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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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 strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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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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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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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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I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.
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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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I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
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