Quotes By Billy Sunday

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.

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.