When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
BILLY SUNDAYIf you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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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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When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
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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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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!
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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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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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The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers’ names in God’s Hall of Fame.
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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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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God’s Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I’ll quit preaching.
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