Dwight Lyman Moody, also known as D. L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher connected with the Holiness Movement, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers. These Dwight L Moody quotes will motivate you.
Best Dwight L Moody Quotes
- “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.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody, and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “God doesn’t expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
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“I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don’t want to be heavenly-minded while they live.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “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
- “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
- “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, ‘Now Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God’. I had 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
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“Whatever you love more than God is your idol.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Those who say they will forgive but can’t forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “He who kneels the most, stands the best.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
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“Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “God will not accept a divided heart. He must be absolute monarch. There is not room in your heart for two thrones. You cannot mix the worship of the true God with the worship of any other god more than you can mix oil and water. It cannot be done. There is not room for any other throne in the heart if Christ is there. If worldliness should come in, godliness would go out.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Be humble, or you’ll stumble.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God’s hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of Heaven.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “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.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ’s funeral sermons, but I couldn’t find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn’t exist where He was.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
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“Excuses are the cradle … that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “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
- “So few grow, because so few study.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “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
- “Moses spent forty years in the king’s palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
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“Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “When I first became a Christian I thought I would be glad when I got farther on and got established. I thought I would be so strong and there would not be any danger; but the longer I live, the more danger I see there is. The only hope of any Christian…is to keep hold of Christ.” ~ Dwight L Moody Quotes
- “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
- “The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
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“I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “It does not take long to tell where a man’s treasure is. In fifteen minutes’ conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Someday 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
- “Someday 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
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“The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.” ~ Dwight L Moody Quotes
- “‘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.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “There is no true prayer without confession. As long as we have unconfessed sin in our soul, we are not going to have power with God in prayer. He says if we regard iniquity in our hearts, He will not hear us, much less answer. As long as we are living in any known sin, we have no power in prayer. God is not going to hear it.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
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“The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He’s even put a ‘No Fishing’ sign over the spot.” ~ 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
- “Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows through persecution and opposition. It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring the world can’t see and doesn’t know anything about.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
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“If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “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 Quotes
- “I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “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
- “This lost world will never be reached and brought back to loyalty to God until the children of God wake up to the fact that they have a mission in the world. If we are true Christians we should all be missionaries.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
