Dwight L. Moody Quotes

What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture.

I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have grace enough to die by. It is much more important that we should have grace enough to live by. It seems to me that death is of very little importance in the meantime. When the dying hour comes, there will be dying grace; but you do not require dying grace to live by.

Character is what you are in the dark.

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is.

‎"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.

By the grace of God, I'll be that man.

I never knew up to that time that God loved us so much. This heart of mine began to thaw out; I could not keep back the tears. I just drank it in...I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in the world and that is love.

At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant, two adults and a child. The facts were just the opposite two children and an adult. When a child is led to Christ, a whole life is saved!

If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.

Let us expect that God is going to use us. Let us have courage and go forward, looking to God to do great things.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

I like my way of doing things better than your way of not doing them.

If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.

Some say if only my fears and doubts will leave then I will get to work. But instead you should get to work and then your fears and doubts will leave.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further.

Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.

I prayed for Faith, and thought that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But Faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, 'Now Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God'. I had closed my Bible, and prayed for Faith. I now opened my Bible, and began to study, and Faith has been growing ever since.

Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.

Ministry need not be an office; it's a lifestyle devoted to attracting the lost to Christ and encouraging other believers in the faith.

It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.

I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.