Billy Sunday Quotes

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

The old order of the country gave way to the new order of the city. Rural morality was replaced by urban morality, rural voices by urban voices, rural votes by urban votes.

Only God can turn our nation and the hearts of its people.

Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant affect on 'Frost/Nixon.' At a stroke, instead of being a piece that reminded people of the agony they were in, it became an uplifting message about the agony they had escaped.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover.

We are all sinners. We are called to a conversion of heart

We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.

Repentance is replete with radical implications for a fundamental change of mind not only turns us from the sinful past, but also transforms our life plan, ethics, and actions as we begin to see the world through God's eyes rather than ours. That kind of transformation requires the ultimate surrender of self.

It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.

America is a country that believes in redemption.

This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.

A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protest injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved-but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God.

America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.