D. L. Moody Quotes

Some say if only my fears and doubts will leave then I will get to work. But instead you should get to work and then your fears and doubts will leave.

It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.

Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light.

Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.

She knows how to hang on to my money. I wish her mom were the same way.

I'm not afraid of death at all.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?

I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind.

There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.

You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity.

The very air in which you live is an inspiration.

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring.

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

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

Character is what you do in the dark.

The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly.

Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.

Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily.

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.

It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.

Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.

My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love.

You are worth so much more than points on a scoreboard or wins vs. losses. The best athletes I know are also some of the best people I've ever met.

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!

I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

I'm not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.

I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those of you thinking you might need your demons in order to be creative: I beg to differ.

In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there.