"The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit……" — 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 brings him to his knees."
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92 Quotes by Billy Sunday
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- Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus…
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- If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
- Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.
- Nine! The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. Ten! If it is lost underwater,…
- Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.
- Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.
- It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years.…
- Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
- If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
- Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.
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