If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere. — Billy Sunday

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

Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ. — Billy Sunday

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense. — Billy Sunday

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

The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe. — Billy Sunday

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

The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not. — Billy Sunday

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

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

I don’t believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother. — Billy Sunday

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. — Billy Sunday

Christianity means a lot more than church membership. — Billy Sunday

Churches don’t need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over. — Billy Sunday

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

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

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove. — 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

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

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk. — Billy Sunday

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

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

If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago. — Billy Sunday

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says ‘sue them for their dough. — Billy Sunday

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. — Billy Sunday

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

The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you. — Billy Sunday

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

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

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