Billy Sunday Quotes

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

[Utah is] A place not desired by the wicked.

I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.

Fear God and work hard.

I go out into America, and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.

Man makes holy what he believes.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.