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You can't measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.

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Billy Sunday
Age: 72 †
Born: 1862
Born: November 19
Died: 1935
Died: November 6
Baseball Player
Evangelist
Ames
Iowa
William Ashley Sunday
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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.
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Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!
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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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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.
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I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.
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The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
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America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!
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