D. L. Moody Quotes

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

It is our privilege to know that we are saved.

Earth recedes....Heav en opens before me.

Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then.

I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.

Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.

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

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

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

If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.

When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.

When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.

I have come a hundred miles," said a minister, "to get some of Mr. Moody's spirit." " You don't want my spirit," was the reply. "What you want is the Spirit of God.

He is the Rock, His work is perfect: For all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is He.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points

People tend to be scared of what they can't see.

Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken.

Whitewashing the pump won't make the water pure.

If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?

If you can't see His way past the tears, trust His heart.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

We are not fountains ourselves; but the Word of God is the true fountain.

My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ, they are looking at the bite of sin.

The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.

We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.

I know I have a first-rate mind, but that's no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.

I'm not tired of the work... I'm tired in the work.

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.

The roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire.

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.