88 Billy Sunday Quotes

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

"The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election."

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

"Be careful, father, or while you are taking one lap around the devil's track your boy will make six."

"You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that."

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

"Not to walk in the straight and narrow way yourself, is to give the devil the biggest kind of a chance to get our children."

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

"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!"

"There is more power in a mother's hand than in a king's scepter."

"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."

"Don't stop with telling your boy to do right. Show him how."

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

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

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