Quotes By Billy Sunday

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.

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

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

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

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

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

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

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.

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

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

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

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

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

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.

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!