Quotes By Billy Sunday

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.

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

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

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

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

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

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

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

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

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 am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

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.

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.

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

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

Personal liberty is not personal license.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

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.

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

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

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

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

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