I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world’s heart for two thousand years.
BILLY SUNDAYThe 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.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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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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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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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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If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
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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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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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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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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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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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Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
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When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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