Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
BILLY SUNDAYGod likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot — and some of you people.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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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 is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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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 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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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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You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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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 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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Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
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Jesus Christ was God’s revenue officer.
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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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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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Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.
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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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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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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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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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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 lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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