Explore Quotes by Billy Sunday

Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.

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

It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging behind. Going back.

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express.

Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.

There is a mighty power in a mother's hand. There's more power in a woman's hand than there is in a king's scepter. And there is a mighty power in a mother's kiss — inspiration, courage, hope, ambition, in a mother's kiss.

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

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

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.

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

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.

You can't measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.

Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.