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Billy Sunday
November 19, 1862 - November 6, 1935
Nationality: American
Category: Clergyman
Subcategory: American Clergyman

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

   

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.

   

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

   

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.

   

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.

   

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

   

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

   

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

   

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

   

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

   

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.

   

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

   

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

   

Personal liberty is not personal license.

   

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

   

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

   

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

   

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.

   

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

   

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

   

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