Quote

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

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
House
Disciple
Truth
Preaching
Real
Knees
Brings
Likes
Wouldn
Side
Sides
Delighted

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
The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
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
They tell me a revival is only temporary so is a bath, but it does you good.
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
It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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
Personal liberty is not personal license.
Billy Sunday
Image
If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
Billy Sunday
Image
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
Billy Sunday
Image
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
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
Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.
Billy Sunday
Image
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.
Billy Sunday
Image
The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
Billy Sunday
Image
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
Billy Sunday
Image
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Billy Sunday
Image
I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
Billy Sunday
Image
One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
Billy Sunday