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Billy Sunday

15 quotes

What we know about Billy Sunday comes primarily from their words — and those words are worth your time. With equal ease, Billy Sunday moved between God and Business, finding connections others missed. 21 of Billy Sunday's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of God, Business, Women, Religion, and Money. One standout: "I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command."

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

— Billy Sunday

Art

All Quotes by Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

God

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

— Billy Sunday

Women

“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

God

“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

Women

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

— Billy Sunday

Money

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

— Billy Sunday

Business

“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

Business

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

— Billy Sunday

Money

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

— Billy Sunday

Business

“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.”

— Billy Sunday

Religion

“Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.”

— Billy Sunday

Religion

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

— Billy Sunday

Best

“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

Home

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

— Billy Sunday

God

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

— Billy Sunday

Art