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.
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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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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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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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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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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If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
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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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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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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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And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don’t know me yet.
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Whiskey is all right in its place – but its place is hell.
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Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
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The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
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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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When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
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