Billy Sunday
Billy Sunday
William Ashley "Billy" Sundaywas an American athlete who, 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth19 November 1862
CityStory County, IA
CountryUnited States of America
prayer
Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.
thinking looks hedgehogs
Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious....
children blow thinking
Listen, if I heard shrieks and cries coming from a house and I ran in there and I found a great big broad shouldered whiskey soaked Joe weasel, dragging his wife about by the hair, and over here, two children are unconscious from his blows and kicks and another one screaming in terror, do you think I would apologize for being there? No! I'd knock 7 kinds of pork out of that old hog.
children memories men
The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and comcribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent.
fear thinking you-dont-know-me
And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.
sports swings doors
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.
jesus mean vision
Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.
inspiring mothers-day mom
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
challenges church business-education
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
men devil rope
The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.
fall land trying
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
tombstone finals behind-you
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.
whiskey hell
Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
law grace crooked
The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.