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

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

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.
Billy Sunday

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

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
Billy Sunday

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
Billy Sunday

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

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

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


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

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
Billy Sunday

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
Billy Sunday

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

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
Billy Sunday

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

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

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
Billy Sunday

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

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
Billy Sunday