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
Doors
Addition
Nobody
Swing
Cities
Locks
Saloons
Ready
Swings
Jails
Sports
Closed
Idly
Getting
Jail
Hinges
Build
Kansas
City
Lock

More quotes by Billy Sunday

Image
I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.
Billy Sunday
Image
America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!
Billy Sunday
Image
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.
Billy Sunday
Image
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
Image
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
Billy Sunday
Image
The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
Billy Sunday
Image
The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
Billy Sunday
Image
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
Image
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!
Billy Sunday
Image
Some persons think they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
Billy Sunday
Image
The Bible says forgive your debtors the world says sue them for their dough.
Billy Sunday
Image
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
Image
Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.
Billy Sunday
Image
Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.
Billy Sunday
Image
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
Billy Sunday
Image
Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
Billy Sunday
Image
One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
Billy Sunday
Image
We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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 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