D. L. Moody Quotes

I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes.

The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.

Ive no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.

Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.

Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.

martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.

... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.

I am one of the crucified dead.

If you don't have a headache by the end of this class, I'm not doing my job.

Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy.

To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.

A man told me a while ago he could not believe a thing he had never seen. I said, “Man, did you ever see your brain?

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

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

When it comes to emotions, women know how to paint with the full set of oils, while men are busy doodling with crayons.

It's not about WHO is right, it's about WHAT is right.

The best boss is the one who bosses the least.

Character is what a man is in the dark

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.

Surviving is one thing, " he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was yourself.

The thing you did to alleviate the loneliness was to take off your clothes and touch someone, even if you didn’t really know the person well.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

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. You soon detect mock humility.

The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation.

There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God's work cannot be done without love.

I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.

He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.

Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.

Get it in while you can. It'll all be gone soon enough.

I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

I always loved him more after he had scolded me than I did at any other time.

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

When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

She said one thing and I said another and the next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation.

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

If I take care of my character my reputation will take care of itself.

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

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.

If we do not love one another we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

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

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

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

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.