Billy Sunday Quotes

I am interested in bringing Africa to the foot of the Cross.

When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.

I can't make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.

It takes a lot of money to do what we do. We have brought over 122 million people to the Lord Jesus Christ.

There isn't anything else more important than taking the gospel to the world.

Evangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

In our times especially the Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and be everywhere increased and spread, that the health of souls be cared for and that barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself.

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

The most important thing to the Christian community is not the environment but evangelism.

I had a lot of friends be kind of standoffish after I became a Christian.

We are all missionary disciples

Sometimes we go so focused on bringing people to the meetinghouse that we forget we are supposed to be bringing them to Christ.

This is something that I'm sure I'd have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There's the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven't embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they're going to hell.

I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.

When you come to Christ, you have to give up all the other gods.

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.

A person is either a missionary or a mission field.

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.

Do not be afraid to go forth and announce the Risen Christ.

I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved.