Billy Sunday
Billy Sunday
William Ashley "Billy" Sundaywas an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth19 November 1862
CityStory County, IA
CountryUnited States of America
faith fire church
Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.
mean church membership
Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
sports believe church-today
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
challenges church business-education
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
running godly church
Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.
sports church devil
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
sports men church-on-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!
church half needs
Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
exercise liberty dare
I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
hypocrite home numbers
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.
jesus believe blood
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.
home piano needs
Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
america needs repentance
America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!