Dwight 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.

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

Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy.

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

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

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

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

‎"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.

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

The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him

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

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

So few grow, because so few study.

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.

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.

A man ought to live so that everybody will know he is a Christian.

The best law for Bible study is the law of perseverance.

Depend upon it, my friends, if you get tired of the Word of God, and it becomes wearisome to you, you are out of communion with Him.

It is not our work to make men believe: that is the work of the Holy Spirit.

I thank God there is a height in that Book [Bible] I do not know anything about, a depth I have never been able to fathom, and it makes the Book all the more fascinating.

If God did not wish us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

A great many men are kept out of the kingdom of God because they are looking for somebody else’s experience—the experience their grandmother had, their aunt, or some one in the family.

Bear in mind there is no situation in life for which you cannot find some word of consolation in Scripture.

May God deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament and talks against the Old!

God has given me a lifeboat and said... 'Moody save all you can

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

This is the test as to your being a true child of God - whether you love and feed upon the Word of God.

I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me.

Prophecy is history unfulfilled, and history is prophecy fulfilled.

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.

Do you know what I do when any man preaches against the doctrines I preach? I go to the Bible and find out what it says, and if I am right I give them more of the same kind.

A worldly Christian is just like a wrecked vessel at sea.

If an angel should come and tell a different story from that in the Book, don't believe it.

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.

Others read the Bible to make it fit in and prove their favorite creed or notions; and if it does not do so, they will not read it. It has been well said that we must not read the Bible by the blue light of Presbyterianism; nor by the red light of Methodism; nor by the violet light of Episcopalianism; but by the light of the Spirit of God.

Wherever the Gospel is proclaimed, there should be an expectation of immediate results, and if this were the case the Church of Christ would be in a constant state of grace.

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.

Every man ought to take down some of the preacher’s words and ideas, and go into some lane or by-way, and preach them again to others. We ought to have four ears—two for ourselves and two for other people.

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.

There’s not a denomination in the world that didn’t spring from a revival.

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.

Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength. When man has no strength, if he leans on God he becomes powerful. The trouble is that we have too much strength and confidence in ourselves.

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.

The great evangelist Dwight Moody once said, “When I was a young Christian, I thought that God kept His gifts on shelves and the best gifts were on the highest shelves and I would have to reach up. I learned later the best gifts are on the lowest shelf and I had to stoop down.” In

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.

People can get along without your theories and opinions, "Thus saith the Lord" - that is what we want.

To believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, is simply to take Him at His word.

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.

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.

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 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.

Christ said to Nicodemus: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” You may see many countries; but there is one country—the land of Beulah, which John Bunyan saw in vision—you shall never behold, unless you are born again—regenerated by Christ. You can look abroad and see many beautiful trees; but the tree of life, you shall never behold, unless your eyes are made clear by faith in the Saviour. You may see the beautiful rivers of the earth—you may ride upon their bosoms; but bear in mind that your eye will never rest upon the river which bursts out from the Throne of God and flows through the upper Kingdom, unless you are born again. God has said it; and not man. You will never see the kingdom of God except you are born again. You may see the kings and lords of the earth; but the King of kings and Lord of lords you will never see except you are born again. When you are in London you may go to the Tower and see the crown of England, which is worth thousands of dollars, and is guarded there by soldiers; but bear in mind that your eye will never rest upon the crown of life except you are born again.