D. L. Moody Quotes

It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.

If you don't enter the kingdom of heaven by God's way, you cannot enter at all.

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.

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

As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.

The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further.

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

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.

The reward of service is more service.

Faith is an outward look, not an inward look.

No one should ever preach on the topic of hell without a tear in his eye.

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.

The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.

The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up.

A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts.

Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.

A good example is far better than a good precept.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

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.

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.

The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer.

Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.

I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is.

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

You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency--using some human instrument.

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.

God will honor our faith.

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.

Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.

No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.

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.

By the grace of God, I'll be that man.

I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.

Temperance is love in training.

A missions conference is a business meeting to decide the fate of the heathen.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?

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.

The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him. By God's help, I aim to be that man.

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

Faith gives us living joy and dying rest.

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

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.

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

God had no children too weak, but a great many too strong to make use of.

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