I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!
BILLY SUNDAYWhen the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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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The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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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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I don’t believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
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I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world’s heart for two thousand years.
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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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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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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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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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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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You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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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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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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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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The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers’ names in God’s Hall of Fame.
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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
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It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
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Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you’ve reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
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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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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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