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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

Billy Sunday

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 SUNDAY

Adversity Cheer Liars
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.
BILLY SUNDAY

Behind Finals Something Summons Tombstone
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!
BILLY SUNDAY

Hell Minister Names
I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.
BILLY SUNDAY

Factories Men Want
Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
BILLY SUNDAY

Criminals Policemen Reason Same
The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
BILLY SUNDAY

Christian Inspirational Long
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.
BILLY SUNDAY

Christian House Inspirational Real
When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
BILLY SUNDAY

Christian Grieving Sports
I don’t believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
BILLY SUNDAY

Believe God Mother
The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
BILLY SUNDAY

Biblical Knows Reason
When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
BILLY SUNDAY

People Revival Sports
Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
BILLY SUNDAY

Cash Character People
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
BILLY SUNDAY

Cheer Liars Lying
The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
BILLY SUNDAY

Crooked Grace Law
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.
BILLY SUNDAY

Politics Sports World
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
BILLY SUNDAY

Enemy Liquor Sports
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 SUNDAY

Cause Church Conviction Men Sports Sunday
If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.
BILLY SUNDAY

Human Prayer Source Stranger
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.
BILLY SUNDAY

Jesus Men Sports
I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!
BILLY SUNDAY

Believe Devil Preacher
I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
BILLY SUNDAY

Dare Exercise Liberty
If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
BILLY SUNDAY

Good Hell Man Preacher
You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
BILLY SUNDAY

Biceps Lines Tape
If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
BILLY SUNDAY

Christian Joy Leak
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.
BILLY SUNDAY

Joy Men Religion
What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
BILLY SUNDAY

Given Possessed World
One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
BILLY SUNDAY

Cream Flourishes Puff Reason Sin

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