Quote

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

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
Trying
Frighten
Praise
Marriage
Wife
Doe
Firsts
First
Even
Praising

More quotes by Billy Sunday

Image
Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.
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
If you don't do your part, don't blame God.
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
Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
Billy Sunday
Image
The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
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
When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
Billy Sunday
Image
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Billy Sunday
Image
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.
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
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
There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
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
They tell me a revival is only temporary so is a bath, but it does you good.
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
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
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
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
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
Billy Sunday