Billy Sunday

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

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

“More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Listen, I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist, I've butt it as long as I've got a head, and I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old, fistless, footless, and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.”

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

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

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

“The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.”

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

“The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.”

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