Words matter. These are the best Billy Sunday Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
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.
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.
Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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.
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!
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
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.
When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.
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.
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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.
The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
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.
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.
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
If you don’t do your part, don’t blame God.
They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
