Top 297 Quotes & Sayings by Dwight L. Moody

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Dwight Lyman Moody, also known as D. L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher connected with Keswickianism, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers. One of his most famous quotes was "Faith makes all things possible... Love makes all things easy." Moody gave up his lucrative boot and shoe business to devote his life to revivalism, working first in the Civil War with Union troops through YMCA in the United States Christian Commission. In Chicago, he built one of the major evangelical centers in the nation, which is still active. Working with singer Ira Sankey, he toured the country and the British Isles, drawing large crowds with a dynamic speaking style.

American - Priest | February 5, 1837 - December 22, 1899

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No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

Dwight L. Moody

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

Dwight L. Moody

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.

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

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The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

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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.

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

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Character is what a man is in the dark.

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

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

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

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Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

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If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

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

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

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

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Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

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

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I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Dwight L. Moody

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Dwight L. Moody

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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A good example is far better than a good precept.

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

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I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.

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In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.

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We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.

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God will not accept a divided heart. He must be absolute monarch. There is not room in your heart for two thrones. You cannot mix the worship of the true God with the worship of any other god more than you can mix oil and water. It cannot be done. There is not room for any other throne in the heart if Christ is there. If worldliness should come in, godliness would go out.

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God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!

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No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words, and actions; you may be selfish; your heart may be overflowing with corruption and wickedness; yet Jesus will have compassion upon you. He will speak comforting words to you; not treat you coldly or spurn you, as perhaps those of earth would, but will speak tender words, and words of love and affection and kindness. Just come at once. He is a faithful friend - a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

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There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.

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Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows through persecution and opposition. It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring the world can't see and doesn't know anything about.

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Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

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Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

Dwight L. Moody

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.

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God likes His people to believe that there is nothing too hard for Him...We are all the time limiting God's power by our own ideas. Let us get our eyes off one another and fix them upon God. There is nothing to hard for Him.

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Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

Dwight L. Moody

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

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I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

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Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.

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The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .

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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.

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Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow

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If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!

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Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

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

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

Dwight L. Moody

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.

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The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

Dwight L. Moody

Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.

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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.

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It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.

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He who kneels the most, stands the best.

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What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything.

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Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

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Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.

Dwight L. Moody

Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training.

Dwight L. Moody

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

Dwight L. Moody

Top 297 Quotes & Sayings by Dwight L. Moody

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