Billy Sunday

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

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

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.

Going to church doesn__ make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

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

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

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!

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

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.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

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.

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.

Listen, I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist, I've butt it as long as I've got a head, and I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old, fistless, footless, and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.

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

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

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