Quotes By Billy Sunday

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

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.

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.

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

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

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.

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

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.

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

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

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

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

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

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

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

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.

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

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.