Billy Sunday

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.”

“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.”

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

“The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.”

“The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.”

“Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.”

“You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.”

“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!”