Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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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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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You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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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 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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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
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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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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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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you’ve reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
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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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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
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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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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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