Billy Sunday Quotes
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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 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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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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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.
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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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Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.
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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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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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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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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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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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Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
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If you don't do your part, don't blame God.
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Personal liberty is not personal license.
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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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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.
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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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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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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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Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.