Dwight L. Moody Quotes

The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly.

I'm not tired of the work... I'm tired in the work.

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.

How far away is Heaven? It is not so far as some imagine. It wasn't very far from Daniel. It was not so far off that Elijah's prayer and those of others could not be heard there. Men full of the Spirit can look right into heaven.

The dying boy said: " Father, don't you weep for me; when I get to heaven I will go straight to Jesus and tell Him that ever since I can remember you have tried to lead me to Him." I would rather have my children say that of me after I am gone; or if they die before me, I would rather they should take that message to the Master than to have a monument over me reaching to the skies.

In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.

More depends on my walk than talk.

It is easier for me to have faith in the Bible than to have faith in D.L. Moody, for Moody has failed me lots of times.

It is not the man that can preach the best that is the most successful, but the man who knows how to get his people together to pray.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.

Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.

Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training.

I believe hundreds of Christian people are being deceived by Satan now on this point, that they have not got the assurance of salvation just because they are not willing to take God at His word.

Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

We are not fountains ourselves; but the Word of God is the true fountain.

A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts.

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.

We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Character is what a man is in the dark.

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.

'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word.

Faith takes God without any ifs. If God says anything, faith says, "I believe it"; faith says, "Amen" to it.

What we want is men with a little courage to stand up for Christ. When Christianity wakes up, and every child that belongs to the Lord is willing to speak for Him, is willing to work for Him, and, if need be, willing to die for Him, then Christianity will advance, and we shall see the work of the Lord prosper.

So few grow, because so few study.

The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend.

God likes His people to believe that there is nothing too hard for Him...We are all the time limiting God's power by our own ideas. Let us get our eyes off one another and fix them upon God. There is nothing to hard for Him.

When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.

It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.

Thanks be to God, there is hope to-day; this very hour you can choose Him and serve Him.

There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.

Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.

I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that you have got to go into a cave to be consecrated, and stay there all your life. Whatever you take up, take it up with all your heart.

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!