A biography for Billy Sundayhasn’t been written yet.
“Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.”
“I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.”
“I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.”
“One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.”
“Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.”
“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.”
“Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.”
“Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.”
“Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.”
“I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.”
“Personal liberty is not personal license.”
“The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.”
“I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.”
“Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.”
“You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.”
“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.”
“The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.”
“If you don't do your part, don't blame God.”
“Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.”
“The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.”