Dwight L. Moody Quotes
True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.
My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ, they are looking at the bite of sin.
The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.
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.
I know I have a first-rate mind, but that's no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.
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.
Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light.
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.
If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.
The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly.
Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.
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.
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.
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.
My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love.
To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.
A man told me a while ago he could not believe a thing he had never seen. I said, “Man, did you ever see your brain?
If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.
A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility. You soon detect mock humility.
There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God's work cannot be done without love.
I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me.
Spread out your petition before God and then say "Thy will not mine be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.
If we do not love one another we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.