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

Billy Sunday

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

Billy Sunday

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.

Billy Sunday

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

Billy Sunday

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

Billy Sunday

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

Billy Sunday

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

Billy Sunday

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

Billy Sunday

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

Billy Sunday

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

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

Billy Sunday

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

Billy Sunday

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

Billy Sunday

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

Billy Sunday

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

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

Billy Sunday

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

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

Billy Sunday

Personal liberty is not personal license.

Billy Sunday

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

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

Billy Sunday

Author Bio

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