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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

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

If you would have your children turn out well, don't turn your home into a lunch counter and lodging house.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

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.

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.

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

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

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

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

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

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.

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

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.