Zitat des Tages von Billy Sunday:
I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
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.
Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
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.
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
If you don't do your part, don't blame God.
I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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.
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
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.
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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.
When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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.
Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
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.
Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.
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.
Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
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!
I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.