Dwight L. Moody Quotes

There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God's hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of Heaven.

Character is what a man is in the dark.

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

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was.

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

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

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

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

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.

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

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.

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.

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

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

Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

There is no better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.

If the Savior could die for the world, can't we work for it?

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

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

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

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.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

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

The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him.

You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.

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!

More depends on my walk than talk.

After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.

Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.

There cannot be any peace where there is uncertainty.

When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had, and He wants us to do the same.

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

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.

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.

God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.

I believe Satan exists for two reasons: first, the Bible says so, and second, I've done business with him.

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

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

We may not be able to do any great thing; but if each of us will do something, however small it may be, a good deal will be accomplised for God.

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!

Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.

Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.

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.

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

The Gospel of John opens with Jesus Christ in the bosom of God, and closes with the sinner in the bosom of Jesus Christ.

To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.

The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.