Sunday’isms from May 9, 1922 Richmond campaign

CAUGHT ON THE FLY

The God-forsaken dance in the schools is—I’ll knock hell out of that here. And you taxpayers have to go down and pay the bill for immorality. It’s an outrage.

Faith is a mightier force than dynamite.

You can’t hurt the Bible any more than you can stop an ocean’s wave by blowing against it with a tin whistle.

This tabernacle represents God and Christianity.

We depend too little on God and too much on the soup kitchen. There are more full stomachs than bended knees in the church.

There’s no use to go after a skunk with cologne water.

Some of us are so slightly acquainted with God that we are afraid to trust Him.

Faith takes God at His word without an IF.

When you have done your best you can trust God with the consequences.

You can pass the buck to God any time you want to if you have done your part.

God will damn any church that will run a dance.

If you want to see a dead town wake up, do something out of the ordinary.

A preacher that can’t preach as though he had authority from God, is no success. He just jimmied his way into the pulpit or had a pull somewhere.

If some preachers would talk plain to sinners in the front pews, how soon the old ice house would thaw out.

If Bible results are expected then Bible preaching must be given to the people.

There is constant disappointment in the preacher who tries to shoot bear with bird shot.

A knowledge of the Bible without education is better than education without the Bible.

The man that God sends is always the right man.

The preacher who is afraid to speak the truth is as weak as Samson was with his hair cut.

When God calls a man to preach he expects him to be as natural as when he sneezes or snores.

A safe and sane ministry is a good deal like a horse—well, one that any woman can drive.

Eternity writes no wrinkles on the brow of time.

There are some people who laugh at other people’s misfortunes. There are a few fools like that in the world.

They haven’t got through shouting up there yet since Moody swept through the gates.

Nobody ever goes to hell that he isn’t warned by God.

I am not discounting the value of education. It draws out virtues and attractions that do not appear otherwise. Education alone can not make character. Education alone can not save a soul.

I am a Christian because God said so. God’s word is the last word. I know I am a Christian.

I am not an infidel because I am not a fool.

I can’t understand your indifference to God’s love.

No rattlesnake will crawl over a rope.

Hell must be an awful place if God Almighty loved us enough to give His Son to keep us out of there.

I don’t think any man does the right thing by his family if he does not prepare for his wife and her little brood after he’s gone. I carry thousands of dollars worth of insurance.

If you are not willing to serve God, you are a God-forsaken, black-hearted ingrate and you are a fool.

Salvation belongs to God and God states the terms by which you may have it.

If you want to come to God you must come through faith in Jesus Christ.

I challenge you Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Christians, United Brethren, to show me that I don’t preach the truth. I hurl it into your teeth.

God never taught me to beat a retreat.

Some fellows will go fishing and stand in the water up to their waists all day, and watch the bobber and never get a bite and say they are having a good time. But if the preacher happens to trespass five minutes over time on Sunday morning those same birds will pull their watches and begin to fidget.

It’s a waste of time to pray to the wrong God.

If you want God’s purity in Richmond, build up the broken down altars.

What we need in the church is less pie and more piety.

You can’t wait three weeks, Richmond, Ind., to get your crop.

Before you can pray right, you’ve got to do right.

O Richmond, God’s warriors have first got to be His worshippers.

Some people are married to the church or the choir or the organ.

The stone that’s in the foundation of a building is more important than the flag staff on the roof, although the stone is not so much in evidence.