Billy Sunday Sayings
- Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
- The Lord is not compelled to use theologians. He can take snakes, sticks or anything else, and use them for the advancement of his cause.
- I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
- Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
- If you took no more care of yourself physically than spiritually, you'd be just as dried up physically as you are spiritually.
- If you live wrong you can't die right.
- Look into the preaching Jesus did and you will find it was aimed straight at the big sinners on the front seats.
- If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.
- Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
- There wouldn't be so many non-church goers if there were not so many non-going churches.
- Too many churches are little more than four walls and a roof.
- There are some so-called Christian homes today with books on the shelves of the library that have no more business there than a rattler crawling about on the floor, or a poison within the child's reach.
- Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.
- There is more power in a mother's hand than in a king's scepter.
- I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
- There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
- To train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself.
- Don't stop with telling your boy to do right. Show him how.
- Be careful, father, or while you are taking one lap around the devil's track your boy will make six.
- If you would have your children turn out well, don't turn your home into a lunch counter and lodging house.
- Not to walk in the straight and narrow way yourself, is to give the devil the biggest kind of a chance to get our children.
- Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
- Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
- Whiskey is all right in its place -- but its place is hell.
- The normal way to get rid of drunkards is to quit raising drunkards -- to put the business that makes drunkards out of business.
- Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.
- It won't save your soul if your wife is a Christian. You have got to be something more than a brother-in-law to the Church.
- You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
- The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
- Going to church doesn't make a man a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes him an automobile.
- The difference between God's side and the devil's is the difference between heaven and hell.
- God keeps no half-way house. It's either heaven or hell for you and me.
- A man can slip into hell with his hand on the door-knob of heaven.
- The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
- The inconsistency is not in the Bible, but in your life.
- God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.
- Yank some of the groans out of your prayers, and shove in some shouts.
- If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
- What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
- The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."
- Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
- I am not the author of the plan of salvation, but I am responsible for the way I preach it.
- I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.
- When I hit the devil square in the face some people go away as mad as if I had slapped them in the mouth.
- 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.
- To discover a flaw in our makeup is a chance to get rid of it, and add a new line of beauty to our life.
- It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
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