Quote

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.

Billy Sunday

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Billy Sunday
Age: 72 †
Born: 1862
Born: November 19
Died: 1935
Died: November 6
Baseball Player
Evangelist
Ames
Iowa
William Ashley Sunday
Ready
Swings
Jails
Sports
Closed
Idly
Getting
Jail
Hinges
Build
Kansas
City
Lock
Doors
Addition
Nobody
Swing
Cities
Locks
Saloons

More quotes by Billy Sunday

Image
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.
Billy Sunday
Image
If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch
Billy Sunday
Image
America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!
Billy Sunday
Image
When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
Billy Sunday
Image
The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
Billy Sunday
Image
Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.
Billy Sunday
Image
I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
Billy Sunday
Image
The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.
Billy Sunday
Image
If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
Billy Sunday
Image
Some persons think they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
Billy Sunday
Image
Personal liberty is not personal license.
Billy Sunday
Image
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Billy Sunday
Image
Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.
Billy Sunday
Image
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!
Billy Sunday
Image
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
Billy Sunday
Image
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.
Billy Sunday
Image
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
Billy Sunday
Image
The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.
Billy Sunday
Image
We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
Billy Sunday
Image
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
Billy Sunday