Billy Sunday Quotes

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

Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.

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

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.

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.

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.

Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.

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

If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere

It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging behind. Going back.

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.

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!

Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

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

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

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

America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.

I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.

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

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.

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

Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.

Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.

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!

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

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.

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

There is a mighty power in a mother's hand. There's more power in a woman's hand than there is in a king's scepter. And there is a mighty power in a mother's kiss — inspiration, courage, hope, ambition, in a mother's kiss.

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching.

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

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.

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

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

Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.

Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell!

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