Top 250 D.L. Moody Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

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2. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn’t really matter.”

— D.L. Moody

3. “If I walk with the world, I can’t walk with God.”

— D.L. Moody

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4. “The world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully consecrated to him. By God’s help, I aim to be that man.”

— D.L. Moody

5. “Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.”

— D.L. Moody

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6. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

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7. “The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.”

— D.L. Moody

8. “Be humble, or you’ll stumble.”

— D.L. Moody

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9. “If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!”

— D.L. Moody

10. “The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.”

— D.L. Moody

11. “God doesn’t expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!”

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

13. “There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.”

— D.L. Moody

14. “Whatever you love more than God is your idol.”

— D.L. Moody

15. “Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!”

— D.L. Moody

16. “He who kneels the most, stands the best.”

— D.L. Moody

17. “The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .”

— D.L. Moody

18. “Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God’s favor.”

— D.L. Moody

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19. “Character is what a man is in the dark.”

— D.L. Moody

20. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

21. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

23. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

24. “Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength.”

— D.L. Moody

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25. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

26. “When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had, and He wants us to do the same.”

— D.L. Moody

27. “I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.”

— D.L. Moody

28. “Those who say they will forgive but can’t forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.”

— D.L. Moody

29. “If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.”

— D.L. Moody

30. “There is no better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.”

— D.L. Moody

31. “If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!”

— D.L. Moody

32. “The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it.”

— D.L. Moody

33. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

34. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

36. “The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.”

— D.L. Moody

37. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

38. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

39. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

40. “Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.”

— D.L. Moody

41. “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!”

— D.L. Moody

42. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

43. “The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.”

— D.L. Moody

44. “Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.”

— D.L. Moody

45. “Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace.”

— D.L. Moody

46. “I like my way of doing things better than your way of not doing them.”

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

48. “The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.”

— D.L. Moody

49. “We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.”

— D.L. Moody

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50. “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.”

— D.L. Moody