Top 297 Quotes & Sayings by Dwight L. Moody - Page 2

'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word.

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.

Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.

A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.

If I walk with the world, I can't walk with God.

I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel

Be humble, or you'll stumble.

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.

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.

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

When I first became a Christian I thought I would be glad when I got farther on, and got established. I thought I would be so strong and there would not be any danger; but the longer I live, the more danger I see there is. The only hope of any Christian...is to keep hold of Christ.

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.

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

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

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.

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

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.

This lost world will never be reached and brought back to loyalty to God, until the children of God wake up to the fact that they have a mission in the world. If we are true Christians we should all be missionaries.

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.

So few grow, because so few study.

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody.

More depends on my walk than talk.

Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal-a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body.

The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

In Proverbs we read: 'He that winneth souls is wise.' If any man, women, or child by a godly life and example can win one soul to God, his life will not have been a failure. He will have outshone all the mighty men of his day, because he will have set a stream in motion that will flow on and on forever and ever.

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

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

The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.

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.

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.

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.

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

God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

God has called us to SHINE, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants YOU to do is to use the influence YOU have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was FAITHFUL and used what he had.

When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.

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.

I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.

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

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

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for 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.

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.

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

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.