Billy Sunday
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Biography
William Ashley Sunday was an American evangelist and professional baseball outfielder. He played for eight seasons in the National League before becoming the most influential American preacher during the first two decades of the 20th century.
"There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing."
"Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile."
"Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian any more than going into a garage makes you an automobile!"
"Going to church don’t make anybody a Christian Any more than taking a wheelbarrow into a garage make it an automobile."
"I have no interest in a God who does not smite."
"Home is the place we love best and grumble the most."
"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."
"I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear."
"I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command."
"I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear."
"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."
"If you don't do your part, don't blame God."
"I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover."
"God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity."
"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."
"If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses."
"The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still."
"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."
"I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command."
"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."
"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!"
"One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake."