Billy Sunday
One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.Collection: Puff
If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhereCollection: Joy
I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!Collection: Believe
The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.Collection: Broken
Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.Collection: Character
Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!Collection: Criminals
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.Collection: Three
Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame.Collection: Girl
Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.Collection: Inspiration
The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.Collection: Biblical
The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.Collection: Church
The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.Collection: Real
We have a God who delights in impossibilities.Collection: God
The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.Collection: Law
Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.Collection: Jesus
The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.Collection: Long
I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.Collection: Men
When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.Collection: Hell
I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.Collection: Heart
I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.Collection: Mother
Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.Collection: Prayer
God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.Collection: People
Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching.Collection: God
The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."Collection: Forgiving
Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.Collection: Riches
Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.Collection: Faith
If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere.Collection: Christian
America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!Collection: America
Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.Collection: Mother
Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.Collection: Running
Some persons think they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.Collection: Thinking
It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging behind. Going back.Collection: Inspiration
Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.Collection: God
There is a mighty power in a mother's hand. There's more power in a woman's hand than there is in a king's scepter. And there is a mighty power in a mother's kiss — inspiration, courage, hope, ambition, in a mother's kiss.Collection: Mom
If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.Collection: Prayer
There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express.Collection: Jesus
Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.Collection: Church
It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.Collection: Bigs
Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.Collection: Christian
An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.Collection: Lying
Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.Collection: Character
More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.Collection: Life
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery.... It is God's worst enemy and the devil's best friend.Collection: Cheer
Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell!Collection: Names
Listen, if I heard shrieks and cries coming from a house and I ran in there and I found a great big broad shouldered whiskey soaked Joe weasel, dragging his wife about by the hair, and over here, two children are unconscious from his blows and kicks and another one screaming in terror, do you think I would apologize for being there? No! I'd knock 7 kinds of pork out of that old hog.Collection: Children
Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.Collection: Home
You can't measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.Collection: Biceps
Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.Collection: Men
If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.Collection: Good Man