When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
BILLY SUNDAYI 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.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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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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Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
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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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Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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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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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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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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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
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You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
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It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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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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