D. L. Moody Quotes
Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.
God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!
Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.
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.
I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.
I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.
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.
Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
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.
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
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.
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.
I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.
Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.
Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.
Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.
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.
God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.
In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.
Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.
Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.
It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
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.
The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.