I pity anyone who can’t laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can’t laugh.
BILLY SUNDAYIf there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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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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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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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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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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Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.
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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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And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don’t know me yet.
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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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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The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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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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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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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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It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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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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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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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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You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
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