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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

Billy Sunday

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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
Baptism
Horse
Religion
Sense
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God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
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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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