Billy Sunday Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

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.

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

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.

There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express.

The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.

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

I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

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

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

Personal liberty is not personal license.

God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.

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

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

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

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

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.

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

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

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.

Listen, if I heard shrieks and cries coming from a house and I ran in there and I found a great big broad shouldered whiskey soaked Joe weasel, dragging his wife about by the hair, and over here, two children are unconscious from his blows and kicks and another one screaming in terror, do you think I would apologize for being there? No! I'd knock 7 kinds of pork out of that old hog.

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

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery.... It is God's worst enemy and the devil's best friend.

If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.

Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

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

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

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."

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

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

It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.

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

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

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

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