J L Moody Quotes

#1. I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

Rick Moody

#2. I was sick of pretending, sick of selling my feelings for a dollar a day.

Anne Moody

#3. I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!

Rick Moody

#4. To believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, is simply to take Him at His word.

D.L. Moody

#5. Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; 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 school; and temperance is love in training.

D.L. Moody

#6. I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

Rick Moody

#7. Character is what you are in the dark.

D.L. Moody

#8. 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.

Dwight L. Moody

#9. I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'm very fortunate with that. That's all. Without the songs, I think, I'd just be a pretty average karaoke singer. In the end, it comes down to the songs: the strength of the songs.

Justin Hayward

#10. Constant vigilance!

J.K. Rowling

#11. Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring.

Alexander Moody Stuart

#12. 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

#13. The past was so past it hurt.

Rick Moody

#14. My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

Dwight L. Moody

#15. My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ, they are looking at the bite of sin.

Dwight L. Moody

#16. Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know."
"Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?"
"Never you mind ...

J.K. Rowling

#17. Maybe it was more than this. Maybe the bond that forms between people doesn't get unmade so easily. Maybe it leaves its mark for a long time.

Rick Moody

#18. I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films.

Rick Moody

#19. Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.

Susan Moody

#20. Would ectoplasm be considered an amenity? As I have said, I personally define an amenity as a specific and unexpected add-on to the hotel experience.

Rick Moody

#21. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us.

Dwight L. Moody

#22. Music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

#23. The day after the Oscars, I flew back to London to film a television play for Anglia. It was a big mistake because you never really get acknowledged for wanting to work in England, as I did.

Ron Moody

#24. That was not sex. That was naked poetry.

Hank Moody

#25. The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

John Moody

#26. Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous

Jeremy Brett

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

D.L. Moody

#28. I am now the site of an unmistakable sag ... With fancy holographic belt buckles do I attempt to restrain my stampeding softness. In vain ... My only virtues, as a physical specimen, are my sideburns, which are like the pelts of rare woodland animals. My sideburns are not to be ignored.

Rick Moody

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

Dwight L. Moody

#30. The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.

Dwight L. Moody