Billy Sunday Quotes

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares.

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

The Devil dances in an empty pocket.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

Drunkenness was extremely common… It seemed for many the only refuge from depression and misery. The effect of drunkenness upon the ordinary relationship of husband and wife, parents and children, was disastrous.

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil--and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more misery and more unhappiness for more people than he could in any other way.

There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.

Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.

Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before.

Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.

Misery is the River of the World

Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.

Small leisure have the poor for grief.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.