Billy Sunday Quotes

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging behind. Going back.

Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.

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

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.

More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.

If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

It is not what you have on you, but what you have in you.

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

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

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

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.

America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

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.

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.

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

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.

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

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

Personal liberty is not personal license.

I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

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.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

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

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.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

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

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.