If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Character, Reputation
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.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Religion
No man can resolve himself into Heaven.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Heaven
God doesn’t seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Dedication
Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Aging, Age
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Faith
Character is what you are in the dark.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Character
light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord’s return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.
—Dwight L. Moody
By the grace of God, I’ll be that man.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Dedication
Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Christianity
If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Prayer
Give me a man who says, “This one thing I do,” and not, “These fifty things, I dabble in.”
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Purpose
Either these unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Cities
Suppose that a man would advertise to take photographs of the heart; would he get many customers?
—Dwight L. Moody
We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Heaven
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.
—Dwight L. Moody
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.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Prayer
A good example is far better than a good precept.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Christianity
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.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Christianity
The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
—Dwight L. Moody
There’s no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
—Dwight L. Moody
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I’ve met.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Difficulty, Integrity, Acceptance, Christianity, Realization, Awareness
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Example
Death may be the King of terrors… but Jesus is the King of kings!
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Dying, Death
Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Religion
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Forgiveness, Prayer
Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.
—Dwight L. Moody
A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Christianity
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Promises
Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Prayer
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian… and most of all, his family ought to know.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Family
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