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The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell!

I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere.

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

There is more power in a mother's hand than in a king's scepter.

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.

If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.

If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere

Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!

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

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

They tell me that I rub the fur the wrong way. I don't; let the cat turn around.

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.

The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!

Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

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.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.

Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.

You can't measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot
and some of you people.

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

It is not what you have on you, but what you have in you.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.

Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.

The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.