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!
BILLY SUNDAYChurches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
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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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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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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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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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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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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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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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Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.
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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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When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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