The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
BILLY SUNDAYSome homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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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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You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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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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I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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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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Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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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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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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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
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It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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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.
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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.
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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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The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
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