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.
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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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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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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Jesus Christ was God’s revenue officer.
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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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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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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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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere
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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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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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