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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Each of us was meant to be an original, but most of us die merely a copy. Anyone who discovers who God made him or her to be would never want to be anyone else.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Notice that all those who have made a deep impression on the world, and have shone most brightly have been men who lived in a dark day.

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

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.

Character is what a man is in the dark

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.

It is the people who never open their Bibles and never study the Scriptures who become offended and discouraged and wonder why they are having such a hard time.

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

Unconfessed sin in the soul is like a bullet in the body.

God in heaven will hear your prayers, and will answer them. He has never failed, if a man has been honest in his petitions and honest in his confessions. Let your faith beget patience.

I would not give much for a man’s Christianity if he is saved himself and is not willing to try and save others. It seems to me the basest ingratitude if we do not reach out the hand to others who are down in the same pit from which we were delivered.

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.

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.

There are natives in Central Africa who never dreamed that they were dark-skinned until they saw the face of a white man.

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

Conscience is a divinely implanted ability in man, telling him that he ought to do right.

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)

It is a great thing for a boy or girl to know how to handle the Bible. What is an army good for if the soldiers don’t know how to handle their weapons?

If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, you have more business than God ever intended you to have.

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.

Faith is taking God at His Word;

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The only true, happy Christian is one that is growing, constantly growing in the love and favor of God, growing in all those delightful graces of the Spirit.

This earth, if we are Christians, is not our home; it is up yonder. God has sent us into the world to shine for Him—to light up this dark world.

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.

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

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.

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 a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him in His work, but God cannot use him, for there is not much for the Holy Spirit to work upon. We must have the Word itself, which is sharper than any two-edged sword.

As I said before, love is the key that will unlock every human heart. No man or woman in all this land is so low and so degraded that you can’t reach them with love, gentleness, and kindness. It may take years, but it can be done.

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.

A man who steals my pocketbook loses much more than I do. I can afford to let him have my pocketbook more than he can afford to take it. Consider how much he loses. Perhaps he will get a few dollars, or he may steal my coat, but he does not get much. See how much he has lost. Take an inventory of what that man loses if he loses heaven. Think of it. No thief shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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.

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.

There are natives in Central Africa who never dreamed that they were dark-skinned until they saw the face of a white man. A great many people in this world never knew they were sinful until they saw the face of Jesus Christ in all its purity.

I believe when we bring the church down to the level of the world to reach the world, we are losing our opportunities and grieving the Spirit of God.

No Scripture,” said Spurgeon, “is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God’s garden bloom, not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

Pascal said, “Human knowledge must be understood in order to be loved, but divine knowledge must be loved to be understood.

God can take care of us when we pass through the waters; God can take care of us when we pass through the fires. God is able to take care of us, if only we will stand up for Him. God will take care of us, if only we will stand up for Him.

These two instruments of grace must be applied in the right proportion. If we read the Word and do not pray, we may become puffed up with knowledge, without the love that builds others up. If we pray without reading the Word, we will be ignorant of the mind and will of God, and become mystical and fanatical, and liable to be blown around by every wind of doctrine

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

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

Human knowledge must be understood in order to be loved, but divine knowledge must be loved to be understood.

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.

We need a modern-day John the Baptist wandering through the land crying, “Repent! Repent!

Cause me to live, O LORD, according to thy word. (Psalm 119:107) Uphold me according unto thy word. (Psalm 119:116)

Quicken me according to thy word. (Psalm 119:25)

Strengthen me according to thy word. (Psalm 119:28)

his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him in His work, but God cannot use him, for there is not much for the Holy Spirit to work upon. We must have the Word itself,

I believe that for every spiritual difficulty there is some promise in the Word of God to meet that difficulty. But if you keep your feelings and your troubles all locked up, how are you to be helped? I might stand and preach to you for thirty days without touching on your particular difficulty. But a twenty-minute private conversation can clear away all your doubts and troubles.

Did you ever notice that the things in the Bible that people object to the most are the very things to which Christ has set His seal?

Many of God’s people have a false impression that only a few can speak for God. If anything is to be done for the souls of men, nine-tenths of the people say, “Oh, the ministers must do it.” It does not enter into the minds of many people that they have a part in the matter. The devil works to keep Christians from the blessed privilege of winning souls to God. Anyone can do this work.

My friends, we have got to have a higher type of Christianity, or the church is gone. It is wrong for men or women 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. My friends, let us to go God and ask Him to search us. Let us ask Him to wake us up, and let us not think that just because we are church members we are all right. We are all wrong if we are not getting victory over sin.

What is his name?” said the visitor. “Opportunity,” was the reply. “Why is his face hidden?” “Because men seldom know him when he comes to them.” “Why has he wings on his feet?” “Because he is soon gone, and once gone can never be overtaken.

Si leemos la Palabra y no oramos, podemos envanecernos de conocimiento, sin el amor que edifica a los demás. Si oramos sin leer la Palabra, seremos ignorantes de la mente y la voluntad de Dios, nos volveremos místicos y fanáticos, y estaremos expuestos a ser arrastrados por todo viento de doctrina.

And God will exalt us also when the right time comes. We don’t need to try to promote ourselves; we don’t need to struggle for position. Let God put us in our true places. It is better for a man to be right with God, even if he holds no position down here. Then he can look up and know that God is pleased with him. That is enough.

Character is worth more than anything else in the whole wide world.