Quotes from Billy Sunday

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.

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

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

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

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.

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

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.

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!

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.