Billy Sunday Quotes

To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character.

For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.

Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

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

When you get a hankering to talk or complain about what you gave up for Lent, replace that hankering by speaking the word of God. For all the times you would have done the activity that you gave up for Lent, replace it by reading the word of God. Christians should always be drawing closer to God.

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

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.

Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from Him.

For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a godly person. Yet when I look at the yesterdays of my life, what I see, mostly, is a broken, irregular path littered with mistakes and failure. I have had temporary successes and isolated moments of closeness to God, but I long for the continuing presence of Jesus.

It's far harder to love God and do his will than it is to be self absorbed and love my own will.

If I were to look at the church of Jesus Christ in America today, I would say our greatest problem is not that we lack the resources to do things, not that we lack the models, the programs, and the plans, but that we lack conformity to the image of Jesus Christ.

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.

It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.