Top 250 D.L. Moody Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If I wanted to find out whether a man was a Christian, I wouldn’t go to his minister. I would go and ask his wife. We need more Christian life at home. If a man doesn’t treat his wife right, I don’t want to hear him talk about Christianity.”

— D.L. Moody

52. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

53. “The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him.”

— D.L. Moody

54. “If you can’t see His way past the tears, trust His heart.”

— D.L. Moody

55. “I’d rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.”

— D.L. Moody

56. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

57. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

58. “True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.”

— D.L. Moody

59. “We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small.”

— D.L. Moody

60. “I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.”

— D.L. Moody

61. “The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.”

— D.L. Moody

62. “The Gospel of John opens with Jesus Christ in the bosom of God, and closes with the sinner in the bosom of Jesus Christ.”

— D.L. Moody

63. “Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.”

— D.L. Moody

64. “The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.”

— D.L. Moody

65. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

66. “Some say if only my fears and doubts will leave then I will get to work. But instead you should get to work and then your fears and doubts will leave.”

— D.L. Moody

67. “There’s no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.”

— D.L. Moody

68. “Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.”

— D.L. Moody

69. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

70. “If God has given you a message, go and give it to the people as God has given it to you. It is a stupid thing to try to be eloquent.”

— D.L. Moody

71. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

72. “I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him in His work; but God cannot make much use of him, for there is not much for the Holy Ghost to work upon.”

— D.L. Moody

73. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

74. “If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.”

— D.L. Moody

75. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

76. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

77. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

78. “The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.”

— D.L. Moody

79. “Whitewashing the pump won’t make the water pure.”

— D.L. Moody

80. “When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.”

— D.L. Moody

81. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

82. “God will honor our faith.”

— D.L. Moody

83. “If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your heads hanging down like bulrushes, complaining how poor you are; but you would lift up your heads with confidence, and proclaim the riches of His grace because you could not help it.”

— D.L. Moody

84. “No one should ever preach on the topic of hell without a tear in his eye.”

— D.L. Moody

85. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

86. “To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.”

— D.L. Moody

87. “If we do not commend the Gospel to people by our holy walk and conversation, we shall not win them to Christ. Some little act of kindness will perhaps do more to influence them than any number of long sermons.”

— D.L. Moody

88. “The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further.”

— D.L. Moody

89. “Some men’s prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.”

— D.L. Moody

90. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

91. “By the grace of God, I’ll be that man.”

— D.L. Moody

92. “The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.”

— D.L. Moody

93. “Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.”

— D.L. Moody

94. “If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!”

— D.L. Moody

95. “I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.”

— D.L. Moody

96. “God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges.”

— D.L. Moody

97. “He is the Rock, His work is perfect: For all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is He.”

— D.L. Moody

98. “I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.”

— D.L. Moody

99. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

100. “We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.”

— D.L. Moody