Billy Sunday Quotes

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

Saying that you don't believe in magic but do believe in god is a bit like saying you don't have sex with dogs, except labradors.

Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don't believe. They think that by professing it they're doing something good. Really, they're just deluding themselves.

We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

Hope is wishing for something to come true. Faith is belief that it will come true. Believe that for every problem God gives you, He will also provide you with a solution.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

We're all a nation that believes we're children of the same god.

Whatever God can do faith can do, and whatever faith can do prayer can do when it is offered in faith. An invitation to prayer is, therefore, an invitation to omnipotence, for prayer engages the Omnipotent God and brings Him into our human affairs. Nothing is impossible to the man who prays in faith, just as nothing is impossible with God. This generation has yet to prove all that prayer can do for believing men and women.

For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.