Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."

— Billy Sunday

Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I…

— Billy Sunday

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

— Billy Sunday

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch

— Billy Sunday

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!

— 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

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

— Billy Sunday

Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.

— Billy Sunday

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

— Billy Sunday

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

— Billy Sunday

“They tell me that I rub the fur the wrong way. I don't; let the cat turn around.”

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth…

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of…

— Billy Sunday

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

— Billy Sunday

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

— Billy Sunday

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

— Billy Sunday

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is…

— Billy Sunday

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

— Billy Sunday

To discover a flaw in our makeup is a chance to get rid of it, and add a new line of beauty…

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.

— Billy Sunday