The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
BILLY SUNDAYIf you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
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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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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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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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I don’t believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
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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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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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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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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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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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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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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world’s heart for two thousand years.
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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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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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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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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing – open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way – that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
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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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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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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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