I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
BILLY SUNDAYThe 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.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
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Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
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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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More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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I don’t believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
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Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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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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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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