Billy Sunday Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big 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!

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.

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

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

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!