The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery…. It is God’s worst enemy and the devil’s best friend.
BILLY SUNDAYThere 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.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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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 can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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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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Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
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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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Jesus Christ was God’s revenue officer.
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
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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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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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