Billy Sunday Quotes

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.

I am never less disposed to sadness than when ill and alone. Sometimes I have fancied that it was the nature of my disease to create a rising, elastic state of mind, but be that as it will (I speak solemnly), the hour of bodily suffering is to me the hour of spiritual joy. It is then that most I feel my dependence on God and his power to sustain.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it; it was a very spiritual time for me.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

There is a very easy remedy. That is to pray ourselves.

all should attend to the essence of religion, and not act as the world was now taught and trained to do; that is, to overlook the substance and essence of religion, and devote their talents, time, and money, to that which is far worse than its shadow, sectarianism;

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

There is a noble future for Islam as a personal faith, not a political doctrine

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it. If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that 'her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace?'

Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.

If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

Whatever your religion, you have to find internal happiness, which I found.

A vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work; like watching the waves from the beach. But you will not get to Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in Flowers or music.

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there is nothing of it here to be sought or found, but only hope and fair promises; and that Christ will give us nothing here but tears, sadness, crosses; and that we shall never feel the smell of the flowers of that high garden of paradise above, till we come there. Nay, but I find it possible to find young glory, and a young green paradise of joy even here. We dream of hunger in Christ's house, while we are here, although He alloweth feasts to all the bairns within God's household.

There is the joy of one's own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others.

Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.

When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.