The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
BILLY SUNDAYThe Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
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The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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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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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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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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Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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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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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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Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
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The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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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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