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.
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 believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
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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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I pity anyone who can’t laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can’t laugh.
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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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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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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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The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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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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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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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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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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When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
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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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