Billy Sunday

Clergyman

1862-11-19 – 1935-11-06

Billy Sunday was an American evangelist and former professional baseball player who became one of the most prominent revivalist preachers of the early 20th century. His sermons drew large crowds across the United States.

Quotes by Billy Sunday

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
Read quote
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Read quote
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Read quote
Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
Read quote
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!
Read quote
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
Read quote
The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
Read quote
Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
Read quote
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
Read quote
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.
Read quote
They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
Read quote
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
Read quote
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.
Read quote
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.
Read quote
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
Read quote
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.
Read quote
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.
Read quote
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
Read quote
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
Read quote
Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
Read quote