Billy Sunday
American evangelist and baseball player (1862-1935)
William Ashley "Billy" Sunday (November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935) was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Quotes
edit- Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian any more than going into a garage makes you an automobile!
- in Press, Radio, Television, Periodicals, Public Relations, and Advertising, As Seen through Institutes and Special Occasions of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism (1967) edited by John Eldridge Drewry.
- Going to church don’t make anybody a Christian Any more than taking a wheelbarrow into a garage make it an automobile.
- in: Roger Biles, The human tradition in urban America (2002), p. 128.
- I have no interest in a God who does not smite.
- in: Gerald McLoughlin, Billy Sunday Was His Real Name University of Chicago Press, (1955), p. 179.
- The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
- in: Billy Sunday Quotes / www.famousquotes.com
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