Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
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 Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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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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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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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 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 law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
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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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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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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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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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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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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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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 dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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There is a mighty power in a mother’s hand. There’s more power in a woman’s hand than there is in a king’s scepter. And there is a mighty power in a mother’s kiss – inspiration, courage, hope, ambition, in a mother’s kiss.
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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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The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
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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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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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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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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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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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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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