Dwight L. Moody Quotes

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.

A good example is far better than a good precept.

Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.

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.

The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer.

Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.

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

When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.

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.

I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.

God will honor our faith.

The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ.

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

No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.

We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.

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

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

Temperance is love in training.

A missions conference is a business meeting to decide the fate of the heathen.

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

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

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him. By God's help, I aim to be that man.

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

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!

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

Faith gives us living joy and dying rest.

A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.

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.

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

God had no children too weak, but a great many too strong to make use of.

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

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

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

Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

It is our privilege to know that we are saved.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.

I have come a hundred miles," said a minister, "to get some of Mr. Moody's spirit." " You don't want my spirit," was the reply. "What you want is the Spirit of God.

He is the Rock, His work is perfect: For all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is He.

Whitewashing the pump won't make the water pure.

If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?

If you can't see His way past the tears, trust His heart.