Quotes By Billy Sunday
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.
Billy Sunday
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!
Billy Sunday
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
Billy Sunday
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.
Billy Sunday
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.
Billy Sunday
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
Billy Sunday
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Billy Sunday
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
Billy Sunday
When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
Billy Sunday
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
Billy Sunday
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
Billy Sunday