Billy Sunday Quotes - Page 4

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.

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

You can't measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.

The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and comcribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.