The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery.... It is God's worst enemy and the devil's best friend. Billy Sunday More Quotes by Billy Sunday More Quotes From Billy Sunday If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings. Billy Sunday sourcestrangerprayer Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. Billy Sunday hilariouschristianfunny One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake. Billy Sunday puffsinreason I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God! Billy Sunday metsdevilbelieve Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking! Billy Sunday policemencriminalsreason The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you. Billy Sunday biblicalreasonknows Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ. Billy Sunday inspirationworldreligion I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names. Billy Sunday takennamesbelieve Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame. Billy Sunday armygirlmother If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere Billy Sunday ifschristianityjoy Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. Billy Sunday threechristianitylord Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his. Billy Sunday rewardsdevilsports Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. Billy Sunday deviltemptationdoors Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you. Billy Sunday wifecharacterpeople The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench. Billy Sunday dormitorylineschurch 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 christian-inspirationalrealhouse Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over. Billy Sunday churchhalfneeds When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell. Billy Sunday word-of-godscholarshiphell It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things. Billy Sunday big-thingsbigs The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out. Billy Sunday crookedgracelaw
