Dwight L Moody Quotes

Character is what you are in the dark.

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

Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy.

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

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

No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truth, but usually quarell among themselves.

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.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met!

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

Humility consists not in thinking poorly of ourselves but in not thinking of ourselves at all.

My experience is that those who pray most in their closets generally make short prayers in public.

That, at least, is the vision of the church in the New Testament: a colony of heaven in a hostile world. Dwight L. Moody said, “Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian.

If I wanted to find out whether a man was a Christian, I wouldn’t go to his minister. I would go and ask his wife. We need more Christian life at home. If a man doesn’t treat his wife right, I don’t want to hear him talk about Christianity.

Sometimes, when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes right from the heart, God understands our language.

The great preacher Dwight Moody once quipped, “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.”1

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.

I was born of the flesh in 1837. I was born of the Spirit in 1856

I think we shall find a great many of our prayers that we thought unanswered answered when we get to heaven

If we have done wrong to some one, we should never ask God to forgive us until we are willing to make restitution.

Too often we knock at mercy’s door, and then run away, instead of waiting for an entrance and an answer.

If I wanted to find out whether a man was a Christian, I wouldn’t go to his minister. I would go and ask his wife.

Prayer was appointed to convey The blessings God designs to give; Long as they live should Christians pray, For only while they pray they live.

Fiery trials make golden Christians; sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

I once read these words on a tombstone: “Born, died, kept.” Let us pray God to keep us in perfect peace, and assured of salvation.

drunkards need anyone to condemn them? There is no one in the wide world who can condemn them as they condemn themselves. What they need is sympathy − tenderness, gentleness, and kindness.

A man can preach the truth. He can be perfectly sound in doctrine, but if there is no love in his heart going out to those whom he addresses, and if he is doing it only professionally, the apostle says he is only sounding brass.

Faith has no desire to have its own will, when that will is not in accordance with the mind of God; for such a desire would at bottom be the impulse of an unbelief which did not rely upon God’s judgment as our best guide. Faith knows that God’s will is the highest good, and that anything which is beneficial to us will be granted to our petitions.

A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is enter into it.

Character is what a man is in the dark

Only a man who can govern himself is fit to govern other men.

If I take care if my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Let others praise you. Don’t praise yourself. If we want God to lift us up, let us get down. The lower we get, the higher God will lift us.

Nothing will silence infidels so quickly as Christians everywhere being united.

As some one has said, God kissed away his soul, and took him home to Himself. “God buried him”—the greatest honor ever paid to mortal man.

Faith is taking God at His Word;

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

A man isn’t worth much in battle if he has any doubt about his weapon,

If we love the Lord Jesus Christ the burden of our hearts will be that God may bring us closer together, so that we may love one another and rise above all party feeling.

To do that, we must be clear and right before God. “For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

But no one can be a true worker for God and a successful winner of souls without love.

If you cannot come as a saint, come as a sinner. Only come!

When I pray, I talk to God, but when I read the Bible, God is talking to me;

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my way. (Psalm 119:105)

When the church, the pulpit, and the pew get united, and God’s people are all of one mind, Christianity is like a red-hot ball rolling over the earth, and all the hosts of death and hell cannot stand before it.

If you are strong-headed, read about Moses and Peter. If you lack courage, look at Elijah. If there is no song in your heart, listen to David. If you are a politician, read Daniel. If you are morally corrupt, read Isaiah. If your heart is cold, read of the beloved disciple, John. If your faith is low, read Paul. If you are getting lazy, learn from James. If you are losing sight of the future, read in Revelation of the Promised Land.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” Now in the fourth chapter of James, in the third verse, we find some spoken of whose prayers were not answered: “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss.” There are a great many prayers not answered because there is not the right motive; we have not complied with the Word of God; we ask amiss.

About 1,500 gathered for two hours of lively, focused prayer. Later, I asked Pastor Jim Cymbala why so many were attending the Brooklyn Tab prayer meetings when many other churches have cancelled their prayer meetings for lack of interest. He answered, “You would also have a full church on prayer meeting night if your people actually believed that God answers prayer!” If we actually believed God answers prayer!

No, not despairingly Come I to Thee; No, not distrustingly Bend I the knee; Sin hath gone over me, Yet is this still my plea, Jesus hath died. Ah, mine iniquity Crimson has been; Infinite, infinite, Sin upon sin; Sin of not loving Thee, Sin of not trusting Thee. Infinite sin. Lord, I confess to Thee Sadly my sin; All I am, tell I Thee, All I have been. Purge Thou my sin away, Wash Thou my soul this day; Lord, make me clean!

His favorite instrument of speech was the Story, as was the case also with His Master. He did not push the mind; he illuminated the heart. He was shrewd enough to see that not one man in a thousand ever changed his opinion because of reason or logic… With his naïve stories he slipped around behind the stubborn intellect, flanked the line of doubts and occupied the heart. He was a great general. When you capture a man’s heart, his intellect comes in the next day and surrenders.

Individualism, relationalism, and antistructuralism have built renowned and racially homogenous ministries, but these have been cold comfort to those members of the body of Christ who exist outside the boundaries of racial whiteness. If white Christians are to reckon with racial discipleship, we must also look critically at the deeply held assumptions that have thus far hindered our attempts to address racial segregation and injustice. While it’s been over a hundred years since Ida B. Wells and Dwight L. Moody overlapped in Chicago, the dynamic they illustrate continues today. In the current cultural moment, black Christians are fighting for more equitable criminal justice policies, immigrant churches are advocating for policies that don’t separate asylum-seeking parents from their children, and Native American believers are lamenting as ancient tribal lands are being polluted by oil pipelines. At the same time, there are prominent white Christians publicly debating whether justice, from a biblical vantage point, can ever be social. Some of these leaders wonder whether justice can even be considered Christian when not limited to an individual. As disheartening as this divide is between white Christianity and many Christians of color, white Christianity’s tools help us to see why we haven’t been able to move past it.

Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. Matt. xx. 18. Never had there been such a going up to Jerusalem as that which Jesus here proposes to His disciples. He goes up voluntarily. The act was not enforced by any external compulsion. Jerusalem might at this time have been avoided. It was deliberately sought. It was a going up to a triumph to be reached through defeat, a coronation to be attained through ignominy and humiliation. O believer, in your walk through the world today, be strengthened, be comforted, be inspired, by the spectacle of the Captain of your salvation thus going up to Jerusalem! And remember, in all those apparently downward passages of your life, where sorrow, and it may be death, lie before you, that all such descents, made or endured in the Spirit of Jesus, are really upgoing steps, leading you to the mount of God and the resurrection glory.

Daniel thought more of his principles than he did of earthly honor or the esteem of men. Right was right with him. He was going to do right that day and let the tomorrows take care of themselves.

God drives His plowshare through cities, and they are upheaved like furrows in the field.

I cannot look into the future. I do not know what is going to happen to-morrow; in fact, I do not know what may happen before night; so I cannot choose for myself as well as God can choose for me, and it is much better to surrender my will to God’s will.

it is prayer and earnestness; prayer and watchfulness; prayer and thanksgiving. It is an instructive fact that throughout Scripture prayer is always linked with something else.

No, you haven’t got to give up the world. If you give a good ringing testimony for the Son of God, the world will give you up pretty quick; they won’t want you around.

We must have a Christianity that has in it the principle of self-denial. We must deny ourselves.

Young men, your moral character is more than money. It is worth more than the honor of the world, which is fleeting and will soon be gone. It is worth more than earthly position, which is transient and will soon be gone. But to have God with you and to be with God – what a grand position! It is an eternal inheritance.

There are three kinds of faith in Christ: 1. Struggling faith, like a man in deep water desperately swimming. 2. Clinging faith, like a man hanging to the side of a boat. 3. Resting faith, like a man safely within the boat (and able to reach out with a hand to help someone else get in).

What’s the problem throughout Christendom today in connection with Sunday school? It is that so many drop through the Sunday school net when they grow up to the age of sixteen or so, and that’s the last we see of them. Many young men who were once Sunday school students are now in our prisons. The cause of that is that so few teachers believe the children can be converted when they are young. They don’t work to bring them to a knowledge of Christ, but are content only to go on sowing the seed. Let a teacher resolve that with God’s help, he won’t rest until he sees his whole class brought into the kingdom of God. If he determines to do this, he will see signs and wonders inside of thirty days.

Christianity isn’t worth a snap of your finger if it doesn’t straighten out your character.

Every temptation you overcome makes you stronger to overcome others, while every temptation that defeats you makes you weaker.

God made the soul a little too large for this world. We could possess the entire world and a void would still exist.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

Every dart Satan fires at us can be quenched by faith. By faith, we can overcome the Evil One. To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.

The first work of the Spirit is to give life – spiritual life. He gives it and He sustains

So let’s not be discouraged. Instead, let’s use all these wonderful opportunities and honor God by expecting great things. If we do, we won’t be disappointed. God is ready and willing to work, if we are ready and willing to let Him and to be used by Him.

We are far too concerned about confessing other people’s sins. If we are interested in true repentance, we will have as much as we can handle to look after our own. When a man or woman gets a good look into God’s looking glass, he doesn’t find fault with other people as much as he does in himself.

When I pray, I talk to God, but when I read the Bible, God is talking to me; and it is really more important that God should speak to me than that I should speak to Him.

A man stood up in one of our meetings and said he hoped to get enough out of the series of meetings to last him all his life. I told him he might as well try to eat enough breakfast at one time to last him his lifetime. That is a mistake that people are making; they are running to religious meetings and thinking the meetings are going to do the work. But if these don’t bring you into closer contact with the Word of God, the whole impression will be gone in three months. The more you love the Scriptures, the stronger your faith will be. There is little backsliding when people love the Scriptures.

What people have I read about, and what have I learned about them? What places have I read about, and what have I learned about them? If the place is not mentioned, can I find out where it is? Do I know its position on the map? Does the passage refer to any particular time in the history of the children of Israel, or of some leading character? Can I tell from memory what I have just been reading? Are there any parallel passages or texts that throw light on this passage? Have I read anything about God the Father, or about Jesus Christ, or about the Holy Spirit? What have I read about myself, about man’s sinful nature, or about the spiritual new nature? Is there any duty for me to observe? Any example to follow? Any promise to lay hold of? Any exhortation for my guidance? Any prayer that I may pray? How is this Scripture profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness? Does the passage of Scripture contain the gospel? Is there a main verse of the chapter or passage? Can I repeat it from memory?

finding of some hidden treasure and bringing it back to the light.

As one has well put it: “Depend upon it, 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.

It is reported of a woman, who, being sick, was asked whether she was willing to live or die, that she answered, “Which God pleases.” “But,” said one, “if God should refer it to you, which would you choose?” “Truly,” replied she, “I would refer it to Him again.” Thus that man obtains his will of God, whose will is subjected to God.

It’s wrong for a man or woman to profess what they don’t possess. If you are not overcoming temptations, the world is overcoming you. Just get on your knees and ask God to help you. Let us go to God, and ask Him to search us. Let’s ask Him to wake us up and not think that just because we are church members we are all right. We are all wrong if we aren’t achieving victory over sin.

The time is coming when Christ will be worth more to you than ten thousand worlds like this. He is offered to you now. Today is the day of grace. Now is the day of mercy. If you read your Bible carefully, you will find that God always precedes judgment with grace. Grace is a forerunner of judgment.

Notice that everything human in this world fails. Every man, the moment he takes his eyes off God, fails.

Many men want a religion in which there is no cross, but they cannot enter heaven that way.

A minister once pronounced the benediction in this way: “The heart of God to make us welcome; the blood of Christ to make us clean, and the Holy Spirit to make us certain.

Young men,” he said “you do not talk like sons of the King. Though it is dark just here, remember it is light somewhere else.” Then he went on to say that if it were dark all over the world, it was light up around the Throne.

Christ is our Way; we walk in Him. He is our Truth; we embrace Him. He is our Life; we live in Him. He is our Lord; we choose Him to rule over us. He is our Master; we serve Him. He is our Teacher, instructing us in the way of salvation. He is our Prophet, pointing out the future. He is our Priest, having atoned for us. He is our Advocate, ever living to make intercession for us. He is our Saviour, saving to the uttermost. He is our Root; we grow from Him. He is our Bread; we feed upon Him. He is our Shepherd, leading us into green pastures. He is our true Vine; we abide in Him. He is the Water of Life; we slake our thirst from Him. He is the fairest among ten thousand: we admire Him above all others. He is ‘the brightness of the Father’s glory, and the express image of His person;’ we strive to reflect His likeness. He is the upholder of all things; we rest upon Him. He is our wisdom; we are guided by Him. He is our Righteousness; we cast all our imperfections upon Him. He is our Sanctification; we draw all our power for holy life from Him. He is our Redemption, redeeming us from all iniquity. He is our Healer, curing all our diseases. He is our Friend, relieving us in all our necessities. He is our Brother, cheering us in our difficulties.

God has left us down here to shine. We are not here to buy and sell and get gain, to accumulate wealth, to acquire worldly position. This earth, if we are Christians, is not our home;

Do all the good you can; to all the people you can; in all the ways you can; and as long as ever you can.

God wants heart service; if we do not give Him that, we can render to Him no service at all.

I expect to pass through this world but once. If, therefore, if there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now; let me not defer nor neglect it, for I will not pass this way again.

If you find that you are selfish, give something away. Determine to overcome that spirit of selfishness and to keep your body under, no matter what it may cost.

I have often said that if I had to convict men of sin I would have given up the work long ago. That is the work of the Holy Ghost. What we have to do is to scatter the good seed of the Word, and expect that God will bless it to the saving of men’s souls.

It is not always more work that we want so much as a better motive. Many of us do a good deal of work, but we must remember that God looks at the motive. The only tree on this earth that can produce fruit which is pleasing to God is the tree of love.

We read that in one place Christ could not do many mighty works because of their unbelief. If Christ could not do this, how can we expect to accomplish anything if the people of God are unbelieving? I contend that God’s children are alone able to hinder God’s work. Infidels, atheists, and sceptics cannot do it.

Where there is union, strong faith, and expectation among Christians, a mighty work is always done.

The more you love the Scriptures, the stronger your faith will be. There is little backsliding when people love the Scriptures.

The heart of God to make us welcome; the blood of Christ to make us clean, and the Holy Spirit to make us certain.

Love of the world means a lack of consideration for the eternal future because of a love for passing things.

right.” If you have to stand alone, stand.

Well, if you will only stir yourself up to study it and ask for God’s assistance, He will definitely help you.

I would say, Lose no time! If you want to have a part in that coming kingdom of the Lord, you had better press into it now while the door is open. Soon, “Too late! too late!” will be the cry.

A great many men are kept out of the Kingdom of God because they are looking for somebody else's experience.

five years old when he departed out of Haran. (Genesis 12:1-4) God had first told Abram to leave Ur of the Chaldees several years before this.[1] He went to Haran, which is about halfway between the valley of the Euphrates and the valley of the Jordan. God had called him into the land of the Canaanites, and he went halfway and stayed there. We do not know how long he stayed there, but it was probably about five years. I believe there are a great many Christians who

Satan thought he accomplished a great deal when he shut Bunyan up for twelve years and six months, but what a blessing it was to the world.