You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
BILLY SUNDAYThe church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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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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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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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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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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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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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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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 want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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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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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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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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I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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