Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
BILLY SUNDAYSome 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.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
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The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
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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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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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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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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 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.
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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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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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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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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