Billy Sunday Quotes
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.
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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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Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
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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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When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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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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Personal liberty is not personal license.
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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 have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
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There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.
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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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Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
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If you don't do your part, don't blame God.
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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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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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Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.