Top 90 Billy Sunday Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”

— Billy Sunday

2. “If you don’t do your part, don’t blame God.”

— Billy Sunday

3. “If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.”

— Billy Sunday

4. “We have a God who delights in impossibilities.”

— Billy Sunday

5. “An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.”

— Billy Sunday

6. “If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.”

— Billy Sunday

7. “The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.”

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

9. “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.”

— Billy Sunday

10. “When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.”

— Billy Sunday

11. “The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.”

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

13. “More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.”

— Billy Sunday

14. “There is more power in a mother’s hand than in a king’s scepter.”

— Billy Sunday

15. “One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.”

— Billy Sunday

16. “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.”

— Billy Sunday

17. “I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.”

— Billy Sunday

18. “Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.”

— Billy Sunday

19. “Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.”

— Billy Sunday

20. “The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.”

— Billy Sunday

21. “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

22. “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!”

— Billy Sunday

23. “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.”

— Billy Sunday

24. “You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps.”

— Billy Sunday

25. “I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.”

— Billy Sunday

26. “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

27. “It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.”

— Billy Sunday

28. “Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.”

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

30. “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.”

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

32. “Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!”

— Billy Sunday

33. “When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.”

— Billy Sunday

34. “I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!”

— Billy Sunday

35. “Personal liberty is not personal license.”

— Billy Sunday

36. “God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot – and some of you people.”

— Billy Sunday

37. “Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.”

— Billy Sunday

38. “I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.”

— Billy Sunday

39. “Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.”

— Billy Sunday

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

— Billy Sunday

41. “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.”

— Billy Sunday

42. “They tell me that I rub the fur the wrong way. I don’t; let the cat turn around.”

— Billy Sunday

43. “Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.”

— Billy Sunday

44. “They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.”

— Billy Sunday

45. “Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.”

— Billy Sunday

46. “Jesus Christ was God’s revenue officer.”

— Billy Sunday

47. “America didn’t need repeal, she needed repentance!”

— Billy Sunday

48. “Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.”

— Billy Sunday

49. “Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.”

— Billy Sunday

50. “And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don’t know me yet.”

— Billy Sunday