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
sports saloons almighty
I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
sports dirty fighting
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
sports law divine
There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
sports names church
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.
sports jesus men
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.
sports party florida
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.
christian sports grieving
When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
sports enemy liquor
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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.
sports swings doors
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
sports jesus doubt
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.
sports world politics
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.
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!