Best 242 quotes of Dwight L. Moody on MyQuotes

A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing.

After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.

A good example is far better than a good precept.

A good many preachers say I am lowering the pulpit. I am glad I am. I am trying to get it down to the level of men's hearts. If I wanted to hit Chicago I would not put the cannon on the top of this building and fire into the air. Too many preachers fire into the air.

A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.

A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved, whenever He heard of their affliction. It was to try them, and it is the same with His dealings toward us. If He seems not to come to us in our affliction, it is only to test us.

A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.

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.

A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the next 6 months, nor can he inhale sufficient air into his lungs with one breath to sustain life for a week to come. We are permitted to draw upon God's store of grace from day to day as we need it.

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

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

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.

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

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!

At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant, two adults and a child. The facts were just the opposite two children and an adult. When a child is led to Christ, a whole life is saved!

Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

Be humble, or you'll stumble.

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

Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

Character is what you are in the dark.

Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

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.

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.

Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it on to others. We ought to have four ears,- two for ourselves, and two for other people. My Bible is worth a good deal to me because I have so many passages marked that, if I am called upon to speak at any time, I am ready. We ought to be prepared to pass around heavenly thoughts and truths, just as we do the coin of the realm.

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

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

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

'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word.

Faith is an outward look, not an inward look.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Faith takes God without any ifs. If God says anything, faith says, "I believe it"; faith says, "Amen" to it.

Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.

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

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

God has two thrones, on in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart.

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

God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

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

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

God has called us to SHINE, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants YOU to do is to use the influence YOU have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was FAITHFUL and used what he had.

God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.