Quotes from Billy Sunday

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!

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.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

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.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.