Billy Sunday Quotes

I still hope. I wouldn't be in this position if I didn't. I love the church. I love the Bible. But I think we're in a time where we're desperately in need of a great reformation.

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

No one is beyond the power of conversion, because no one is beyond the power of truth.

I look at my faith like a room, and there was all of this furniture in there, but I had inherited most of the furniture. Then, when I got divorced, I took everything out just to see how I was going to refurnish the room, and that was a very essential step in my life. It was great.

There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success, like the church has never experienced since the Book of Acts.

You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God.

To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.

No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit.

Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.

When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?

I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.

We are not revived because we sing; we sing because we are revived.