Dwight L. Moody Quotes & Sayings

The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly. — Dwight L. Moody

Be humble, or you'll stumble. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him! — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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

I thank God that the gospel is to be preached to every creature. There is no man so far gone, but the grace of God can reach him; no man so desperate or black, but He can forgive him. — Dwight L. Moody

Earth recedes ... Heav en opens before me. — Dwight L. Moody

What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don't let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham. — Dwight L. Moody

If I walk with the world, I can't walk with God. — Dwight L. Moody

The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further. — Dwight L. Moody

God has two thrones, on in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart. — Dwight L. Moody

I like my way of doing things better than your way of not doing them. — Dwight L. Moody

What we want is men with a little courage to stand up for Christ. When Christianity wakes up, and every child that belongs to the Lord is willing to speak for Him, is willing to work for Him, and, if need be, willing to die for Him, then Christianity will advance, and we shall see the work of the Lord prosper. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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

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. — Dwight L. Moody

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me. — Dwight L. Moody

Christ never preached any funeral sermons. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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

The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder. — Dwight L. Moody

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

Go through John's Gospel, and study the "believes," the "verilys," the " I ams; "and go through the Bible in that way, and it becomes a new book to you. — Dwight L. Moody

When the Spirit came to Moses, the plagues came upon Egypt, and he had power to destroy men's lives; when the Spirit came upon Elijah, fire came down from heaven; when the Spirit came upon Gideon, no man could stand before him; and when it came upon Joshua, he moved around the city of Jericho and the whole city fell into his hands; but when the Spirit came upon the Son of Man, He gave His life; He healed the broken-hearted. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your heads hanging down like bulrushes, complaining how poor you are; but you would lift up your heads with confidence, and proclaim the riches of His grace because you could not help it. — Dwight L. Moody

God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls. — Dwight L. Moody

If the Savior could die for the world, can't we work for it? — Dwight L. Moody

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. — Dwight L. Moody

If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God! — Dwight L. Moody

You can always tell when a man is a great ways from God
he is always talking about himself, how good he is. But the moment he sees God by the eye of faith, he is down on his knees, and, like Job, he cries, Behold I am vile. — Dwight L. Moody

There is no better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved, whenever He heard of their affliction. It was to try them, and it is the same with His dealings toward us. If He seems not to come to us in our affliction, it is only to test us. — Dwight L. Moody

I believe this is a mistake a great many of us are making; we are trying to do God's work with the grace God gave us ten years ago. We say, if it is necessary, we will go on with the same grace. Now, what we want is a fresh supply, a fresh anointing and fresh power, and if we seek it, and seek it with all our hearts, we will obtain it. — Dwight L. Moody

The world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully consecrated to him. By God's help, I aim to be that man. — Dwight L. Moody

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

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial. — Dwight L. Moody

I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel — Dwight L. Moody

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

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself. — Dwight L. Moody

Death may be the King of terrors ... but Jesus is the King of kings! — Dwight L. Moody

It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

How easy it is to work for God when we are filled with His Spirit! His service is so sweet, so delightful; He is not a hard master. People talk about their being overworked and breaking down. It is not so. It is [over-worry] and care that wears people out.
Why do so many workers break down? Not from overwork, but because there has been friction of the machinery; there hasn't been enough of the oil of the Spirit. Great engines have their machinery so arranged that where there is friction there is oil dropping on it all the time. It is a good thing for Christians to have plenty of oil. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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

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

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives. — Dwight L. Moody

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small. — Dwight L. Moody

There is the joy of one's own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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

At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant, two adults and a child. The facts were just the opposite two children and an adult. When a child is led to Christ, a whole life is saved! — Dwight L. Moody

We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

Whatever you love more than God is your idol. — Dwight L. Moody

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

Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust. — Dwight L. Moody

If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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

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

Thanks be to God, there is hope to-day; this very hour you can choose Him and serve Him. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise at once to comfort and respectability ... I never saw a man who put Christ first in his life that wasn't successful. — Dwight L. Moody

No man can resolve himself into Heaven. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the grave, let the judgment come, the victory is Christ's and yours through Him. — Dwight L. Moody

Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord. — Dwight L. Moody

Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow — Dwight L. Moody

Faith is an outward look, not an inward look. — Dwight L. Moody

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

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. — Dwight L. Moody

It may be that at this moment every battlement of heaven is alive with the redeemed. There is a sainted mother watching for her daughter. Have you no response to that long hushed voice which has prayed for you so often? And for you, young man, are there no voices there that have prayed for you? And are there none whom you promised once to meet again, if not on earth, in heaven? — Dwight L. Moody

More depends on my walk than talk. — Dwight L. Moody

The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

Faith gives us living joy and dying rest. — Dwight L. Moody

Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody