Top 90 Billy Sunday Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.”

— Billy Sunday

52. “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.”

— Billy Sunday

53. “Christianity means a lot more than church membership.”

— Billy Sunday

54. “If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere.”

— Billy Sunday

55. “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.”

— Billy Sunday

56. “When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.”

— Billy Sunday

57. “Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.”

— Billy Sunday

58. “It is not what you have on you, but what you have in you.”

— Billy Sunday

59. “If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.”

— Billy Sunday

60. “Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.”

— Billy Sunday

61. “Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.”

— Billy Sunday

62. “I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world’s heart for two thousand years.”

— Billy Sunday

63. “The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.”

— Billy Sunday

64. “When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.”

— Billy Sunday

65. “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.”

— Billy Sunday

66. “Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.”

— Billy Sunday

67. “Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It’s a willingness to do what he wants you to do.”

— Billy Sunday

68. “The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.”

— Billy Sunday

69. “The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.”

— Billy Sunday

70. “If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch.”

— Billy Sunday

71. “You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.”

— Billy Sunday

72. “I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.”

— Billy Sunday

73. “The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.”

— Billy Sunday

74. “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.”

— Billy Sunday

75. “Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.”

— Billy Sunday

76. “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.”

— Billy Sunday

77. “You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.”

— Billy Sunday

78. “Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.”

— Billy Sunday

79. “There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.”

— Billy Sunday

80. “I pity anyone who can’t laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can’t laugh.”

— Billy Sunday

81. “If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.”

— Billy Sunday

82. “Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious...”

— Billy Sunday

83. “The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.”

— Billy Sunday

84. “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

85. “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.”

— Billy Sunday

86. “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.”

— Billy Sunday

87. “I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.”

— Billy Sunday

88. “Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.”

— Billy Sunday

89. “Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.”

— Billy Sunday

90. “The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.””

— Billy Sunday

91. “Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.”

— Billy Sunday

92. “I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.”

— Billy Sunday

93. “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.”

— Billy Sunday

94. “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.”

— Billy Sunday

95. “Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.”

— Billy Sunday

96. “I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.”

— Billy Sunday

97. “There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.”

— Billy Sunday

98. “I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.”

— Billy Sunday

99. “God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.”

— Billy Sunday