Quotes from Billy Sunday

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

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.

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

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

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

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

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

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

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!