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.
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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You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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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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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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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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If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.
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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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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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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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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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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
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I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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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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Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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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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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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When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
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The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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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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The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
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