Top 100 Dwight L. Moody Quotes
#1. God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.
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#2. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us.
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#3. It is not the man that can preach the best that is the most successful, but the man who knows how to get his people together to pray.
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#4. God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges
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#5. 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.
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#6. If the Savior could die for the world, can't we work for it?
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#8. You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.
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#9. We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.
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#11. If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.
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#12. It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.
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#13. God had no children too weak, but a great many too strong to make use of.
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#14. Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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.
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#17. Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
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#18. Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.
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#19. God likes His people to believe that there is nothing too hard for Him ... We are all the time limiting God's power by our own ideas. Let us get our eyes off one another and fix them upon God. There is nothing to hard for Him.
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#21. The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly.
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#22. You can always tell when a man is a great ways from God
he is always talking about himself, how good he is. But the moment he sees God by the eye of faith, he is down on his knees, and, like Job, he cries, Behold I am vile.
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#23. When I was a young man I heard Henry Barley say that the world has yet to see what God can do for a man fully yielded to Him, and I said I wanted to be that man. But I can say today the world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully yielded to Him.
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#24. Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.
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#26. 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.
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#27. Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.
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#28. Death may be the King of terrors ... but Jesus is the King of kings!
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#29. We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small.
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#30. When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.
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#31. If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?
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#32. I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that you have got to go into a cave to be consecrated, and stay there all your life. Whatever you take up, take it up with all your heart.
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#33. The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.
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#34. 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.
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#36. The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.
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#37. The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.
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#38. The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?
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#39. Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. It is clear you don't like my way of doing evangelism. You raise some good points. Frankly, I sometimes do not like my way of doing evangelism. But I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it.
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#43. The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.
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#44. Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
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#45. Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!
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#46. 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.
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#47. The Gospel of John opens with Jesus Christ in the bosom of God, and closes with the sinner in the bosom of Jesus Christ.
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#49. God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and sins, the gate of heaven, which is open only for sinners, saved by grace, must be shut against you forever.
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#50. 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.
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#51. Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the grave, let the judgment come, the victory is Christ's and yours through Him.
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#52. What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don't let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham.
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#53. '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.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer.
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#57. When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.
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#58. A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.
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#59. I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.
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#60. A missions conference is a business meeting to decide the fate of the heathen.
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#61. When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who have very slight conviction of sin sooner or later lapse back into their old life.
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#62. No one should ever preach on the topic of hell without a tear in his eye.
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#63. God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.
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#67. If you don't enter the kingdom of heaven by God's way, you cannot enter at all.
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#68. The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.
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#69. Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.
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#70. What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture.
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#71. 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.
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#72. Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.
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#73. Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.
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#74. 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.
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#75. God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!
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#76. Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.
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#77. A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.
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#78. Ministry need not be an office; it's a lifestyle devoted to attracting the lost to Christ and encouraging other believers in the faith.
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#79. God has two thrones, on in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart.
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#80. There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
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#81. No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.
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#82. I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
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#83. 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.
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#84. There is the joy of one's own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others.
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#85. I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is.
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#86. God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.
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#89. The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend.
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#90. 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.
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#91. There is no use in running before you are sent; there is no use in attempting to do God's work without God's power. A man working without this unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the Holy Ghost upon him, is losing time after all.
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#92. How far away is Heaven? It is not so far as some imagine. It wasn't very far from Daniel. It was not so far off that Elijah's prayer and those of others could not be heard there. Men full of the Spirit can look right into heaven.
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#93. 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.
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#94. If God tells us to do a thing we are to do it; if He tells us to believe a thing, we are to believe it; we are to have faith in God. Have faith in God, and if God tells you to believe a thing believe it, and then you will have peace and confidence and joy.
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#95. If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.
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#96. It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise at once to comfort and respectability ... I never saw a man who put Christ first in his life that wasn't successful.
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#97. It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.
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#98. We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.
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#99. We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
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#100. Let us expect that God is going to use us. Let us have courage and go forward, looking to God to do great things.
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