We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
– Billy Sunday
God
If you have no joy, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
– Billy Sunday
Joy | Christianity
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
– Billy Sunday
Church
I don’t believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
– Billy Sunday
Mothers | Godliness
To train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself.
– Billy Sunday
Examples | Children
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
– Billy Sunday
Achievement | Men
Be careful, father, or while you are taking one lap around the devil’s track your boy will make six.
– Billy Sunday
Parents | Children
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
– Billy Sunday
Marriage
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
– Billy Sunday
Temptation
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.
– Billy Sunday
Backsliding
Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It’s a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
– Billy Sunday
Conversion | Surrender
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
– Billy Sunday
Hell | Satan
Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
– Billy Sunday
Christianity | Church
There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express.
– Billy Sunday
Jesus
There is more power in a mother’s hand than in a king’s scepter.
– Billy Sunday
Power | Mothers
Too many churches are little more than four walls and a roof.
– Billy Sunday
Church
Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. The saloon hasn’t one leg to stand on.
– Billy Sunday
Drunkenness
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.
– Billy Sunday
Repentance | Conversion | Surrender
When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
– Billy Sunday
Revival
Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.
– Billy Sunday
Revival | Church
If you would have your children turn out well, don’t turn your home into a lunch counter and lodging house.
– Billy Sunday
Home | Children
God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot — and some of you people.
– Billy Sunday
I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world’s heart for two thousand years.
– Billy Sunday
Preaching
The Lord is not compelled to use theologians. He can take snakes, sticks or anything else, and use them for the advancement of his cause.
– Billy Sunday
Theology
If you don’t do your part, don’t blame God.
– Billy Sunday
Achievement
If you took no more care of yourself physically than spiritually, you’d be just as dried up physically as you are spiritually.
– Billy Sunday
Health
To discover a flaw in our makeup is a chance to get rid of it, and add a new line of beauty to our life.
– Billy Sunday
Life | Beauty
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.
– Billy Sunday
Drunkenness | Crime
What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
– Billy Sunday
Success
The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
– Billy Sunday
The Bible
The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
– Billy Sunday
The Bible
I’m against sin. I’ll kick it as long as I’ve got a foot, and I’ll fight it as long as I’ve got a fist. I’ll butt it as long as I’ve got a head. I’ll bite it as long as I’ve got a tooth. And when I’m old and fistless and footless and toothless, I’ll gum it till I go home to Glory and it goes home to perdition!
– Billy Sunday
Sin
If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
– Billy Sunday
Prayer | Power
Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
– Billy Sunday
Character
Don’t stop with telling your boy to do right. Show him how.
– Billy Sunday
Examples | Children
You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
– Billy Sunday
Morality | Women
Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
– Billy Sunday
Home | Discipline
Jesus Christ was God’s revenue officer.
– Billy Sunday
Jesus
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
– Billy Sunday
Money
I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
– Billy Sunday
The Bible
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
– Billy Sunday
Drunkenness
Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
– Billy Sunday
Religion
I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
– Billy Sunday
Drunkenness
Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.
– Billy Sunday
Home
Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.
– Billy Sunday
Wealth
It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.
– Billy Sunday
Success
There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
– Billy Sunday
Drunkenness
God keeps no half-way house. It’s either heaven or hell for you and me.
– Billy Sunday
Heaven | Hell
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
– Billy Sunday
Drunkenness
Yank some of the groans out of your prayers, and shove in some shouts.
– Billy Sunday
Prayer
It won’t save your soul if your wife is a Christian. You have got to be something more than a brother-in-law to the Church.
– Billy Sunday
Salvation
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
– Billy Sunday
Drunkenness | Satan
If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch.
– Billy Sunday
Satan
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
– Billy Sunday
Mothers
Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the smoke into the face of God.
– Billy Sunday
Death
The normal way to get rid of drunkards is to quit raising drunkards — to put the business that makes drunkards out of business.
– Billy Sunday
Drunkenness
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
– Billy Sunday
Revival
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
– Billy Sunday
Revival | Doctrine
There are some so-called Christian homes today with books on the shelves of the library that have no more business there than a rattler crawling about on the floor, or a poison within the child’s reach.
– Billy Sunday
Books
A man can slip into hell with his hand on the door-knob of heaven.
– Billy Sunday
Hell
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
– Billy Sunday
Drunkenness | Business
When I hit the devil square in the face some people go away as mad as if I had slapped them in the mouth.
– Billy Sunday
Satan
I am not the author of the plan of salvation, but I am responsible for the way I preach it.
– Billy Sunday
Preaching
When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
– Billy Sunday
Revival | Sin | Stress
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
– Billy Sunday
Drunkenness
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.
– Billy Sunday
Drunkenness | Family | Business
I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
– Billy Sunday
Leadership | Adversity | Liberty
If there is no Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
– Billy Sunday
Hell | Preaching | Hypocrisy
The difference between God’s side and the devil’s is the difference between heaven and hell.
– Billy Sunday
Good and Evil
There wouldn’t be so many non-church goers if there were not so many non-going churches.
– Billy Sunday
Church
Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
– Billy Sunday
Church | Renewal
If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.
– Billy Sunday
Preaching
Personal liberty is not personal license.
– Billy Sunday
Character | Liberty
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
– Billy Sunday
Drunkenness
If you live wrong you can’t die right.
– Billy Sunday
Death
Look into the preaching Jesus did and you will find it was aimed straight at the big sinners on the front seats.
– Billy Sunday
Sin
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.
– Billy Sunday
Death
The inconsistency is not in the Bible, but in your life.
– Billy Sunday
The Bible | Life
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.
– Billy Sunday
Conversion
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.
– Billy Sunday
Hypocrisy | Laziness
And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don’t know me yet.
– Billy Sunday
Fear | Preaching
The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
– Billy Sunday
Forgiveness
Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.
– Billy Sunday
Church
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!
– Billy Sunday
Revival | Conviction | Backsliding
Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
– Billy Sunday
Marriage
Not to walk in the straight and narrow way yourself, is to give the devil the biggest kind of a chance to get our children.
– Billy Sunday
Examples | Children
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
– Billy Sunday
Morality
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.
– Billy Sunday
Drunkenness | Politics