Quotes by Billy Sunday

Billy Sunday

Billy Sunday

American athlete and evangelist

Lived from: 1862 - 1935

Category: Theologians and clergy Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 19 november 1862 Died: 6 november 1935

  • They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a both, but it does you good.
  • You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
  • Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. The saloon hasn't one leg to stand on.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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  • 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!
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
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  • 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.
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
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  • And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
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  • 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.
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
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  • Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
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  • 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 speaks (1970)
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  • Going to church doesn't make anybody a Christian Any more than taking a wheelbarrow into a garage make it an automobile.
    Roger Biles, The human tradition in urban America (2002)
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  • Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian any more than going into a garage makes you an automobile!
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  • Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
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  • If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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  • 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.
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  • Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
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  • Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
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  • 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.
    Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ (1917)
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  • 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.
    As quoted in "Leaving the fold: testimonies of former fundamentalists" by Edward T. Babinski, Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 435
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  • 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.
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  • The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
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  • 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 Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ (1917)
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  • They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a both, but it does you good.
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  • Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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What are the most famous quotes from Billy Sunday?

The two most famous quotes from Billy Sunday are:

  • "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!"
  • "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."

When did Billy Sunday live?

Billy Sunday was born in 1862 and died in the year 1935.