Sayings of Billy Sunday (1862-1935)...
“Give
your face to God, and He will put His shine on it.“ —Billy Sunday
“The law tells me how crooked I am.
Grace comes along and straightens me out.“ —Billy Sunday
“The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows
all about you.” —Billy Sunday
“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.” —Billy Sunday
“One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead
of a rattlesnake.” —Billy Sunday
“The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as
you will not live according to those you can understand.” —Billy Sunday
“Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.” —Billy Sunday
“They tell me that I rub the fur the wrong way. I don't; let the cat turn
around.” —Billy Sunday
"Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first." —Billy
Sunday
"If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power." —Billy Sunday
"The normal way to get rid of drunkards is to quit raising drunkards -- to
put the business that makes drunkards out of business." —Billy Sunday
"There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing."
—Billy Sunday
"God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church.
He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over
Christianity." —Billy Sunday
"We have a God who delights in impossibilities." —Billy Sunday
"And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me
yet." —Billy Sunday
"There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I
have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for
the God Almighty." —Billy Sunday
"The inconsistency is not in the Bible, but in your life." —Billy Sunday
"Look into the preaching Jesus did and you will find it was aimed straight
at the big sinners on the front seats." —Billy Sunday
"If you live wrong you can't die right." —Billy Sunday
"I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic."
—Billy Sunday
"Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant
of his." —Billy Sunday
"Personal liberty is not personal license." —Billy Sunday
"If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago."
—Billy Sunday
"If you would have your children turn out well, don't turn your home into a
lunch counter and lodging house." —Billy Sunday
"Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch
made over." —Billy Sunday
"There wouldn't be so many non-church goers if there were not so many
non-going churches." —Billy Sunday
"I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of
others." —Billy Sunday
"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." —Billy Sunday
"When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves
and distresses the Christian." —Billy Sunday
"I am not the author of the plan of salvation, but I am responsible for the
way I preach it." —Billy Sunday
"When I hit the devil square in the face some people go away as mad as if I
had slapped them in the mouth." —Billy Sunday
"To train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself."
—Billy Sunday
"I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business,
education, church, morals or anything we hold dear." —Billy Sunday
"A man can slip into hell with his hand on the door-knob of heaven." —Billy
Sunday
"I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the
arms of a godly mother." —Billy Sunday
"The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow." —Billy
Sunday
"God keeps no half-way house. It's either heaven or hell for you and me."
—Billy Sunday
"There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects." —Billy Sunday
"It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things." —Billy Sunday
"What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?" —Billy
Sunday
"Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest." —Billy
Sunday
"When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people
asleep."
- Billy Sunday
"Religion needs a baptism of horse sense." —Billy Sunday
"I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover." —Billy Sunday
"The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money
is poorer still." —Billy Sunday
"If you don't do your part, don't blame God." —Billy Sunday
"Too many churches are little more than four walls and a roof." —Billy
Sunday
"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." —Billy Sunday
