Billy Sunday's Quotes

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

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!

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

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

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

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

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

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

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

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

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

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

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

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