Quotes by Billy Sunday

About Billy Sunday:

William Ashley "Billy" Sunday was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.
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Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

Billy Sunday

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Billy Sunday

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.

Billy Sunday

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

Billy Sunday

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

Billy Sunday

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

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

Billy Sunday

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

Billy Sunday

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

Billy Sunday

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Billy Sunday

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

Billy Sunday

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

Billy Sunday

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

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

Billy Sunday

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

Billy Sunday

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

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

Billy Sunday

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

Billy Sunday

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

Billy Sunday

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

Author Bio

  • NameBilly Sunday
  • BornNovember 19, 1862
  • DiedNovember 6, 1935
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSportsperson; Baseball Player