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.
Interpretation
A shallow understanding of religion can lead to unhappiness and dissatisfaction.
Billy Sunday highlights the paradox of religion where a superficial grasp can bring more misery than joy. He suggests that true religion should inspire happiness and fulfillment, and if it does not, there is a fundamental flaw in one's understanding or practice of faith.
In practice
This quote could be used in a sermon to emphasize the importance of finding joy in faith.
Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
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.
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.
Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.
En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.
The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
It's the people who don't recognize the racism within themselves that can be the most damaging because they don't see it.
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