Quotes by Billy Sunday

“They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.”

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

“Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first”

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

“The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship”

“A mans best fortune, or his worst, is his wife”

“Wives are young mens mistresses, companions for middle age, and old mens nurses.”

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

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

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

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

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 reason you dont like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

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

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

Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach Gods 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, Ill quit preaching.

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.

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

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.

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.