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 saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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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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The 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.
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Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We’re not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.
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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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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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Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.
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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 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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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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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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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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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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America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!
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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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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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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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