Billy Sunday
(1862-1935)
William Ashley "Billy" Sunday was an American athlete and religious figure. Born into poverty in Iowa, Sunday spent some years in an orphanage before working at odd jobs, then 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. Converted to evangelical Christianity in the 1880s, Sunday left baseball for the Christian ministry. He gradually developed his skills as a pulpit evangelist in the Midwest and then, during the early 20th century, he became the nation's most famous evangelist with his colloquial sermons and frenetic delivery. Sunday held widely reported campaigns in America's largest cities, and he attracted the largest crowds of any evangelist before the advent of electronic sound systems. Sunday was a strong supporter of Prohibition. Sunday continued to preach and remained a stalwart defender of conservative Christianity until his death.
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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.
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Personal liberty is not personal license.
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Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
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Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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There wouldn't be so many non-church goers if there were not so many non-going churches.
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Too many churches are little more than four walls and a roof.
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Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
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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.
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Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the smoke into the face of God.
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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.
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If you live wrong you can't die right.
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If you don't do your part, don't blame God.
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More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.---
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.
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Personal liberty is not personal license.
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Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
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Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
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There wouldn't be so many non-church goers if there were not so many non-going churches.
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Too many churches are little more than four walls and a roof.
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Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
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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.
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Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the smoke into the face of God.
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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.
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If you live wrong you can't die right.
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