Dwight L. Moody Quotes

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then.

If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.

God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges

It is the only happy life to live for the salvation of souls.

A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing.

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.

Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace.

If you don't enter the kingdom of heaven by God's way, you cannot enter at all.

Faith gives us living joy and dying rest.

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

Salvation is worth working for. It is worth a man's going round the world on his hands and knees, climbing its mountains, crossing its valleys, swimming its rivers, going through all manner of hardship in order to attain it. But we do not get it in that way. It is to him who believes.

God will honor our faith.

Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody.

I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.

Be humble, or you'll stumble.

I thank God that the gospel is to be preached to every creature. There is no man so far gone, but the grace of God can reach him; no man so desperate or black, but He can forgive him.

If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.

No one should ever preach on the topic of hell without a tear in his eye.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

Earth recedes....Heav en opens before me.

The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?

The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.

Christ came down to save us from a terrible hell, and any man who is cast down to hell from here must go in the full blaze of the gospel, and over the mangled body of the Son of God.

If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.

Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.

The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.

When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.

If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!

When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.

The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.

His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.

Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.

It is our privilege to know that we are saved.

Faith is an outward look, not an inward look.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.

We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.

Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows through persecution and opposition. It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring the world can't see and doesn't know anything about.

You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency--using some human instrument.