88 Billy Sunday Quotes

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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'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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

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.

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.

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

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.