Billy Sunday Quotes

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Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

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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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You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

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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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The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."

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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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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

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If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch

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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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The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

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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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And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

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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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Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell!

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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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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 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 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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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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There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express.

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At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

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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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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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