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Billy Sunday was an American evangelist and former professional baseball player known for his dynamic preaching and revival meetings. His energetic and charismatic style drew large crowds and led to widespread conversions. Sunday played a significant role in the religious revival movement of the early 20th century and is remembered for his contributions to American evangelicalism.
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"I am a temperance Republican down to my toes."

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"There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing."

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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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"Christianity means a lot more than church membership."

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"When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it."

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

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"The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe."

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"The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow."

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"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."

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"Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell."

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"If you don't do your part, don't blame God."

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"Religion needs a baptism of horse sense."

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"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."

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

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

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

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"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."

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"The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still."

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"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."

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

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"When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep."

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"What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?"

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"Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in."

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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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"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 there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses."

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"You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that."

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

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"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."

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

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

God,
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"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."

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

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"Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer."

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

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"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."

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"More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent."

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"Personal liberty is not personal license."

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"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!"

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"Home is the place we love best and grumble the most."

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"There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects."

Law,
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"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."

Now,
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"When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian."

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"Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first."

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

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"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."

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