88 Billy Sunday Quotes

To train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself.

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

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

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

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

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

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

The Lord is not compelled to use theologians. He can take snakes, sticks or anything else, and use them for the advancement of his cause.

Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. The saloon hasn't one leg to stand on.

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

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

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

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

Too many churches are little more than four walls and a roof.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

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.

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

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

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

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

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

If you took no more care of yourself physically than spiritually, you'd be just as dried up physically as you are spiritually.

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.

To discover a flaw in our makeup is a chance to get rid of it, and add a new line of beauty to our life.

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.

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

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

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

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

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

God keeps no half-way house. It's either heaven or hell for you and me.

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

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

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

I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, and I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist. I'll butt it as long as I've got a head. I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old and fistless and footless and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to Glory and it goes home to perdition!

It won't save your soul if your wife is a Christian. You have got to be something more than a brother-in-law to the Church.

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

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

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

Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the smoke into the face of God.

The normal way to get rid of drunkards is to quit raising drunkards -- to put the business that makes drunkards out of business.

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

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

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

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.

There are some so-called Christian homes today with books on the shelves of the library that have no more business there than a rattler crawling about on the floor, or a poison within the child's reach.

A man can slip into hell with his hand on the door-knob of heaven.

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