100+ Dwight L. Moody Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: - Dwight L Moody (1898). “Men of the Bible: Abraham, Moses, Naaman, Nehemiah, Herod, John the Baptist, The Man Born Blind, Joseph of Arimathea, The Penitent Thief”, p.48, Moody Publishers

Topics: Inspiring, Prayer, Men, Short Prayer

Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1977). “D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments”, p.20, Moody Publishers

Topics: Idols

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.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1977). “D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments”, p.20, Moody Publishers

Topics: Christian, Block, Sunday, Stumbling Blocks, Weekdays

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

Topics: Life, Names, Heaven

Right now I'm having so much trouble with D.L. Moody that I don't have time to find fault with the other fellow.

Topics: Faults, Trouble, Right Now

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

source: - Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.74, Lulu Press, Inc

Topics: People, Giving, Joy

If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1941). “Thoughts for the Quiet Hour”, p.34, Moody Publishers

Topics: Circumstances, Ifs

So few grow, because so few study.

source: - Dwight L Moody (2013). “Experiencing Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study”, p.9, Moody Publishers

Topics: Inspiring, Study, Grows

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

Topics: Kindness, Mean, Men, God's Grace, Unworthy

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

source: - Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.62, Moody Publishers

Topics: Death, Prayer, Children

When I was a young man I heard Henry Barley say that the world has yet to see what God can do for a man fully yielded to Him, and I said I wanted to be that man. But I can say today the world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully yielded to Him.

Topics: Men, World, Today, Barley

A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1900). “Short Talks”, p.48, Moody Publishers

Topics: Christian, Water, Different

I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel

Topics: Men, I Can

There is no true prayer without confession. As long as we have unconfessed sin in our soul, we are not going to have power with God in prayer. He says if we regard iniquity in our hearts, He will not hear us, much less answer. As long as we are living in any known sin, we have no power in prayer. God is not going to hear it.

Topics: Prayer, Heart, Long, Iniquity, Unconfessed Sin

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

Topics: Way, My Way

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.

Topics: Humble, Humility, Men, Meekness

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

Topics: Sea, Ships, Christianity, Tested

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

Topics: Prayer, Law, Grace

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

source: - Dwight L Moody (2013). “Experiencing Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study”, p.75, Moody Publishers

Topics: Inspiring, Men, Good Man

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.

Topics: Heart, Empty Vessels, Grace

The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.

Topics: Fire, Church, Way, Revive, Build A Fire

The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.

source: - Dwight L Moody (2001). “The Secret of Success in the Christian Life”, p.36, Moody Publishers

Topics: Facts, Christ, Fountain

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

Topics: Christian, Believe, Two

The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.

Topics: Jesus, Children, Shadow Of Death

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

source: - Dwight L Moody (2013). “Experiencing Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study”, p.8, Moody Publishers

Topics: Inspiring, Christian, Saws

The best definition I can find of faith is the dependence upon the veracity of another. The Bible definition in the 11th chapter of Hebrews is, 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' In other words, faith says amen to everything that God says. Faith takes God without any ifs, If God says it, Faith says I believe it; Faith says amen to it.

Topics: Believe, Substance, Definitions, Veracity

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.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1998). “Men God Challenged: Moody Classics Series”, p.45, Moody Publishers

Topics: Hands, Should Have, Praying

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.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.89, Moody Publishers

Topics: Done, Language, Made, Thy Will Be Done

When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who have very slight conviction of sin sooner or later lapse back into their old life.

Topics: Men, Lapses, Taught, Old Life

Whitewashing the pump won't make the water pure.

Topics: Water, Pumps, Pure

If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.

Topics: Men, Thinking, Singing, Praise God

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.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1884). “To the Work!: Exhortations to Christians”, p.77, Moody Publishers

Topics: May, Able, Great Things

God has two thrones, on in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart.

Topics: Heart, Two, Heaven

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

Topics: Office, Needs, Ministry, Encouraging Others

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

Topics: Jesus, Christ, Gospel Of John

Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish, silly, and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be raised up into feeling, into union and design with him; that I am to enter into his counsel and carry out his purpose fully.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.89, Moody Publishers

Topics: Prayer, Silly, Mean

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

source: - Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.53, Moody Publishers

Topics: Death, Forgiveness, Prayer, Our Prayers, Saying A Prayer

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.

Topics: Jesus, Hate, Men, Two Masters

Faith gives us living joy and dying rest.

Topics: Giving, Joy, Dying

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.

Topics: Prayer, Doubt, May

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1897). “God's Good News”, p.36, Moody Publishers

Topics: Self, Self Righteous, Righteous, Humble Yourself, Self Righteousness

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.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1897). “God's Good News”, p.79, Moody Publishers

Topics: Wise, Men, Feet

Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1977). “D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments”, p.25, Moody Publishers

Topics: Church, Sacred, Worship

There cannot be any peace where there is uncertainty.

Topics: Uncertainty

If you don't enter the kingdom of heaven by God's way, you cannot enter at all.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1977). “D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments”, p.111, Moody Publishers

Topics: Heaven, Kingdoms, Way, Kingdom Of Heaven

Dr. Bonar once said that he could tell when a Christian was growing. In proportion to his growth in grace he would elevate his Master, talk less of what he himself was doing, and become smaller and smaller in his own esteem, until, like the morning star, he faded away before the rising sun.

Topics: Christian, Morning, Stars

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

Topics: Godly, Christian Inspirational, Spirit, Sundials

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.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1958). “Talks to Christians”, p.59, Moody Publishers

Topics: Successful, Men, People

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

Topics: Prayer, Taken, Our Words, Serious Things

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.

source: - Dwight L Moody (2013). “Moody's Stories: Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations”, p.58, Moody Publishers

Topics: Christian, Men, Drunk, Christian Life

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.

Topics: Christian, Heart, Trying, Christian Life

We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small.

Topics: Use, May, Bigs

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

Topics: Son, Trials, Sin

Character is what you are in the dark.

source: - Attributed in "D.L. Moody" by William R. Moody, (p. 503), 1930.

Topics: Inspiring, Inspirational Life, Humorous, Good Character, Integrity And Character

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

Topics: Boredom, Everyday, Laziness, Will Power

If God tells us to do a thing we are to do it; if He tells us to believe a thing, we are to believe it; we are to have faith in God. Have faith in God, and if God tells you to believe a thing believe it, and then you will have peace and confidence and joy.

Topics: Believe, Joy, Have Faith, Have Faith In God

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.

Topics: Prayer, Great Work, My Friends

God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges

Topics: Privilege, Spirit, Command

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.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.74, Moody Publishers

Topics: Mother, Prayer, Children

The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer.

Topics: Prayer, World, Littles

If God has given you a message, go and give it to the people as God has given it to you. It is a stupid thing to try to be eloquent.

source: - Dwight L Moody (1898). “Men of the Bible: Abraham, Moses, Naaman, Nehemiah, Herod, John the Baptist, The Man Born Blind, Joseph of Arimathea, The Penitent Thief”, p.25, Moody Publishers

Topics: Stupid, People, Giving

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

Topics: Sin, Made, Forts

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.

Topics: Prayer, Thinking, Use

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.

Topics: Son, Men, Body

When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.

Topics: Men, Thinking, Light, Self Confident

It is clear you don't like my way of doing evangelism. You raise some good points. Frankly, I sometimes do not like my way of doing evangelism. But I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it.

Topics: Way, Sometimes, Evangelism

It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.