Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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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More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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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 ministers say, ‘If you don’t repent you’ll die and go to a place the name of which I can’t pronounce.’ I can! You’ll go to hell!
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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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You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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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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The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn’t hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.
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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
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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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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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