Let God have your life; He can do more with it than you can.
– Dwight L. Moody
Life | Submission
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
– Dwight L. Moody
God | Truth
David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.
– Dwight L. Moody
Faithful
Character is what a man is in the dark.
– Dwight L. Moody
Character
Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.
– Dwight L. Moody
Faith | Love
Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.
– Dwight L. Moody
Attitude
Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
– Dwight L. Moody
Children | Prayer
It is our privilege to know that we are saved.
– Dwight L. Moody
Assurance
When we get full of this grace we want to see every one blessed–we want to see all the churches blessed, not only all the churches here, but in the whole country. That was the trouble with Christ’s disciples. He had hard work to make them understand that His gospel was for every one, that it was a stream to flow out to all nations of the earth. They wanted to confine it to the Jews, and He had to convince them that it was for every living being.
– Dwight L. Moody
Blessings
If you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ you are free.
– Dwight L. Moody
Freedom
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Bible | Inspiration
Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength.
– Dwight L. Moody
Faith | Weakness
The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.
– Dwight L. Moody
Forgiveness
I don’t care where it is, what part of the world it’s in, if we have a praise church we’ll have successful christianity.
– Dwight L. Moody
Praise
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.
– Dwight L. Moody
Humility
When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.
– Dwight L. Moody
Meditation
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
Satan | Children
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
Christians | Family
I believe the family was established long before the church, and my duty is to my family first. I am not to neglect my family.
– Dwight L. Moody
Family
The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him.
– Dwight L. Moody
Joy
Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
– Dwight L. Moody
Church | Discipleship | Illness
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!
– Dwight L. Moody
Death
A man does not get grace till he comes down to the ground, till he sees he needs grace. When a man stoops to the dust and acknowledges that he needs mercy, then it is that the Lord will give him grace.
– Dwight L. Moody
Grace | Mercy
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
Examples | Light
The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.
– Dwight L. Moody
Love
If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.
– Dwight L. Moody
Love
A great many people want to bring their faith, their works, their good deeds to Him for salvation. Bring your sins, and He will bear them away into the wilderness of forgetfulness, and you will never see them again.
– Dwight L. Moody
Forgiveness
Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God’s favor.
– Dwight L. Moody
Grace
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.
– Dwight L. Moody
Peace
When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.
– Dwight L. Moody
Evangelism
Forgiveness is not that stripe which says, “I will forgive, but not forget.” It is not to bury the hatchet with the handle sticking out of the ground, so you can grasp it the minute you want it.
– Dwight L. Moody
Forgiveness
I have never yet known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord’s people were divided.
– Dwight L. Moody
Unity
Christ never preached any funeral sermons.
– Dwight L. Moody
Death | Preaching
Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.
– Dwight L. Moody
Prayer | Thankfulness
I cannot preach on hell unless I preach with tears.
– Dwight L. Moody
Preaching | Hell
Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal- a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body.
– Dwight L. Moody
Heaven | Death
Death may be the King of terrors… but Jesus is the King of kings!
– Dwight L. Moody
Death | Jesus
No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words, and actions; you may be selfish; your heart may be overflowing with corruption and wickedness; yet Jesus will have compassion upon you. He will speak comforting words to you; not treat you coldly or spurn you, as perhaps those of earth would, but will speak tender words, and words of love and affection and kindness. Just come at once. He is a faithful friend – a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
– Dwight L. Moody
Compassion
There is no sin in the whole catalogue of sins you can name but Christ will deliver you from it perfectly.
– Dwight L. Moody
Sin
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
Jesus | Friendship
Obedience means marching right on whether we feel like it or not. Many times we go against our feelings. Faith is one thing, feeling is another.
– Dwight L. Moody
Obedience | Feelings
A man who covers up the cross though he may be an intellectual man, and draw large crowds will have no ilk there, and his church will be but a gilded sepulcher.
– Dwight L. Moody
Church | Heresy | The Cross
If you say “I will fast when God lays it on my heart,” you never will. You are too cold and indifferent to take the yoke upon you.
– Dwight L. Moody
Fasting
You may find hundreds of faultfinders among professed Christians; but all their criticism will not lead one solitary soul to Christ.
– Dwight L. Moody
Criticism
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And that which I can do, by the grace of God, I will do.
– Dwight L. Moody
Service
Take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the judgment come: the victory is Christ’s and yours through Him.
– Dwight L. Moody
Victory
The trouble is, people do not know that Christ is a Deliverer. They forget that the Son of God came to keep them from sin as as well as to forgive it.
– Dwight L. Moody
Forgiveness
You don’t have to go to heathen lands today to find false gods. America is full of them. Whatever you love more than God is your idol.
– Dwight L. Moody
Idolatry | America
His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.
– Dwight L. Moody
Compassion
It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.
– Dwight L. Moody
Evangelism
Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.
– Dwight L. Moody
Prayer | Surrender
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
– Dwight L. Moody
Prayer | Self-love
The most solemn truth in the gospel is that the only thing Christ left down here is His blood.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Gospel
Every good gift that we have had from the cradle up has come from God. If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.
– Dwight L. Moody
Praise
I do not know anything that would wake up Chicago better than for every man and woman here who loves Him to begin to talk about Him to their friends, and just to tell them what He has done for you. You have got a circle of friends. Go and tell them of Him.
– Dwight L. Moody
Witnessing
Some people go back into the past and rake up all the troubles they ever had, and then they look into the future and anticipate that they will have still more trouble, and then they go reeling and staggering all through life.
– Dwight L. Moody
Trials
If we have a praise church we will have people converted.
– Dwight L. Moody
Praise
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
Prayer | Contentment
We are led on by an unseen power that we have not got strength to resist, or else we are led on by the loving Son of God.
– Dwight L. Moody
Choices
He came to deliver us from our sinful dispositions, and create in us pure hearts, and when we have Him with us it will not be hard for us. Then the service of Christ will be delightful.
– Dwight L. Moody
Sin | Purity | Service
I’d rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.
– Dwight L. Moody
Prayer | Preaching
We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.
– Dwight L. Moody
Prayer
The tendency of the world is down – God’s path is up.
– Dwight L. Moody
Carnality
I cannot preach on hell unless I preach with tears.
– Dwight L. Moody
Preaching | Hell
The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
– Dwight L. Moody
Grace
If I walk with the world, I can’t walk with God.
– Dwight L. Moody
Carnality
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
– Dwight L. Moody
Life | Stewardship
The grace of God hath power to bring salvation to all men, and if a man is unsaved it is because he wants to work it out; he wants to receive salvation in some other way than God’s way; but we are told that “he that climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber.”
– Dwight L. Moody
Salvation
We have in our churches a great deal of prayer, but I think it would be a good thing if we had a praise meeting occasionally. If we could only get people to praise God for what He has done, it would be a good deal better than asking Him continually for something.
– Dwight L. Moody
Praise | Church
Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.
– Dwight L. Moody
Prayer | The Holy Spirit
If Christ comes into our hearts we are not ashamed.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Heart
When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The fact is, we have too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God’s strength is worth more than all the world.
– Dwight L. Moody
Strength
Now just think a moment and answer the question, “What shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?”
– Dwight L. Moody
Choices
We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small.
– Dwight L. Moody
Humility
What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything.
– Dwight L. Moody
Apathy
I prayed for faith and thought that some day faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” I had up to this time closed my Bible and prayed for faith. I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.
– Dwight L. Moody
Faith
The mightiest man that ever lived could not deliver himself from his sins. If a man could have saved himself, Christ would never have come into the world.
– Dwight L. Moody
Salvation
I believe Satan to exist for two reasons: first, the Bible says so; and second, I’ve done business with him.
– Dwight L. Moody
Satan
Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.
– Dwight L. Moody
God
Looking at the wound of sin will never save anyone. What you must do is look at the remedy.
– Dwight L. Moody
Sin
If we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God, and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Holy Spirit
The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer.
– Dwight L. Moody
Prayer
What can botanists tell you of the lily of the valley? You must study this book for that. What can geologists tell you of the Rock of Ages, or mere astronomers about the Bright Morning Star? In those pages we find all knowledge unto salvation; here we read of the ruin of man by nature, redemption by the blood, and regeneration by the Holy Ghost. These three things run all through and through them.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Bible
I wish we had a few more women like the woman of Samaria, willing to confess what the Lord Jesus Christ had done for their souls.
– Dwight L. Moody
Women
There are three kinds of faith in Christ: 1. Struggling faith, like a man in deep water desperately swimming. 2. Clinging faith, like a man hanging to the side of a boat. 3. Resting faith, like a man safely within the boat (and able to reach out with a hand to help someone else get in).
– Dwight L. Moody
Faith
Now, as old Dr. Bonner, of Glasgow, said, “The Lord didn’t show Joshua how to use the sword, but He told him how he should meditate on the Lord day and night, and then he would have good success.”
– Dwight L. Moody
Meditation
When we know our Bible: then it is that God can use us.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Bible
Sin will keep you from this Book or this Book will keep you from sin.
– Dwight L. Moody
Sin | The Bible
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
– Dwight L. Moody
Character
Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
– Dwight L. Moody
Prayer
If you receive Him it will be well; if you reject Him and are lost it will be terrible.
– Dwight L. Moody
Salvation
The law stops every man’s mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.
– Dwight L. Moody
Humility
If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.
– Dwight L. Moody
Prayer
A man who has not realized what the blood has done for him has not the token of salvation. It is told of Julian, the apostate, that while he was fighting he received an arrow in his side. He pulled it out, and, taking a handful of blood threw it into the air and cried, “Galilean, Galilean, thou hast conquered.”
– Dwight L. Moody
Salvation
More depends on my walk than talk.
– Dwight L. Moody
Examples
I believe firmly that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and everything that is contrary to God’s law, the Holy Spirit will fill every corner of our hearts. But if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God. We must be emptied before we can be filled.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Heart
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.
– Dwight L. Moody
Service
Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.
– Dwight L. Moody
Temptation
There was never a sermon which you have listened to but in it Christ was seeking for you. I contend that a man cannot but find in every page of this book that Jesus Christ is seeking him through His blessed Word. This is what the Bible is for to seek out the lost.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Bible
God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
– Dwight L. Moody
Self-love