Billy Sunday Quotes
The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.
Ellis, William T. “Billy” Sunday, the Man and His Message. John C. Winston Company, 1914, p. 424.
This text, generally considered the most important of all the Hindu works is believed to be the guidance given by Lord Krishna, the most important of the God figures, to has friend and devotee Arjuna. It originally was an episode of the enormous Mahabharata, the history of the ancient world written originally in Sanskrit. The date is approximate and different scholars have dated it from 500 BC to 50 BC. The Bhagavad Gita is generally regarded as the most concise description of Hindu philosophy. For some religions, fighting and war is not only permissible but can be a religious duty. Islam has the same notion. Christianity in contrast has had more of a theological struggle with war as a duty and even had to develop the concept of a “just war” to make fighting morally permissible. But this compunction, also shared with Buddhists and Bhai for example, is by no means universal. When religious Muslims fought religious Hindus as they have for over 1000 years, it is particularly difficult even today to make peace as so many on both sides see the battle as a religious duty.
This quotation is very important because it helps readers to understand the problem that the Native Americans have had dealing with land treaties and transactions and the difficulty many Native Americans have had with the concept of paid jobs and working for hire—hence being very successful in a European style capitalistic economy.
William Ashley Sunday was an American outfielder in baseball's National League and widely considered the most influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.
