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.
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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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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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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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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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
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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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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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Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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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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