Best 92 quotes of Billy Sunday on MyQuotes

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.

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

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

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!

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.

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.

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

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

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

Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.

Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

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

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

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

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

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

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

It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging behind. Going back.

I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Personal liberty is not personal license.

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

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

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!