Jay Makatche > Jay's Quotes

“They tell me that I rub the fur the wrong way. I don't; let the cat turn around.”
― Billy Sunday

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ

“The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.”
― Billy Sunday

“The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.”
― Billy Sunday

“One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.”
― Billy Sunday

“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.”
― 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

“The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.”
― Billy Sunday

“Listen, I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist, I've butt it as long as I've got a head, and I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old, fistless, footless, and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.”
― Billy Sunday

“Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.”
― Billy Sunday

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

“Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching.”
― Billy Sunday

“Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.”
― Billy Sunday

“O Devil, why do you hit us when we are down? Old boy, I know that you have no time for me, and I guess that you have about learned that I have no time for you. I will never apologize for anything I have ever done against you. If I have ever said anything that has does not hurt you, tell me about it, and I'll take it out of my sermon.”
― 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