Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
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I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
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A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
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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.
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Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
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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.
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At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
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I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
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They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
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You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
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I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
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God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
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Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
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Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
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There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.
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More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
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Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
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And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.
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Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.
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I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
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