If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
BILLY SUNDAYIf you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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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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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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Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
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Jesus Christ was God’s revenue officer.
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If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch
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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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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 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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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 reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
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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 saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!
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Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
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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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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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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.
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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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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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God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
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I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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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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