Billy Sunday Quotes

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

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

If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame.

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.

I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.

There is a mighty power in a mother's hand. There's more power in a woman's hand than there is in a king's scepter. And there is a mighty power in a mother's kiss — inspiration, courage, hope, ambition, in a mother's kiss.

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.

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