You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.
BILLY SUNDAYChristianity means a lot more than church membership.
More Billy Sunday Quotes
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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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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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If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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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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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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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.
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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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Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
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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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And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don’t know me yet.
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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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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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Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
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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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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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Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.
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God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
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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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The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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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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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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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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