Billy Sunday Quotes
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More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.
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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
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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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I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
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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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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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The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
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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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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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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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Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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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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The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
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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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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
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I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
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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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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.