Quotes by Billy Sunday

Billy Sunday (1862–1935) — Erweckungsprediger · Evangelikal · USA

William Ashley „Billy“ Sunday (1862–1935) war ein US-amerikanischer Baseballprofi und presbyterianischer Erweckungsprediger, der Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts in den gesamten USA vor Millionen Menschen sprach. Bekannt für seinen dynamischen Predigtstil und seinen Einsatz für die Prohibition, rief er zu persönlicher Umkehr auf, stand jedoch auch wegen nationalistischer Töne und der Beibehaltung der Rassentrennung bei Südstaaten-Kampagnen in der Kritik. Bibellesern begegnet er heute als Wegbereiter moderner Massenevangelisation sowie durch pointierte Zitate zu Heuchelei und Glaubenspraxis.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Relationships & Family, Discipleship, Church & Congregation, Prayer & Silence, Meaning & Identity, Growth & Character, Witness & Mission, Temptation & Struggle

Quotes by Billy Sunday

The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.
Billy Sunday

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
Billy Sunday

To train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself.
Billy Sunday

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
Billy Sunday

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
Billy Sunday

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
Billy Sunday

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.
Billy Sunday

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
Billy Sunday

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Billy Sunday

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.
Billy Sunday

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Billy Sunday

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
Billy Sunday

I don’t believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
Billy Sunday

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.
Billy Sunday

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power
Billy Sunday

Be careful, father, or while you are taking one lap around the devil's track your boy will make six.
Billy Sunday

I’m against sin. I’ll kick it as long as I’ve got a foot, and I’ll fight it as long as I’ve got a fist. I’ll butt it as long as I’ve got a head. I’ll bite it as long as I’ve got a tooth. And when I’m old and fistless and footless and toothless, I’ll gum it till I go home to Glory and it goes home to perdition!
Billy Sunday

If you have no joy, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
Billy Sunday

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
Billy Sunday

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

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.
Billy Sunday

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.
Billy Sunday

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
Billy Sunday

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Sources: ebsco.com, ameshistory.org, wikipedia.org, sabr.org

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