Billy Sunday Quotes - Page 2

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.

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

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

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express.

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.

Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.

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.

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!

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

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

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.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery.... It is God's worst enemy and the devil's best friend.

Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell!

Listen, if I heard shrieks and cries coming from a house and I ran in there and I found a great big broad shouldered whiskey soaked Joe weasel, dragging his wife about by the hair, and over here, two children are unconscious from his blows and kicks and another one screaming in terror, do you think I would apologize for being there? No! I'd knock 7 kinds of pork out of that old hog.