Top 250 D.L. Moody Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.”

— D.L. Moody

102. “The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ.”

— D.L. Moody

103. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

105. “The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.”

— D.L. Moody

106. “It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.”

— D.L. Moody

107. “Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.”

— D.L. Moody

108. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

109. “I believe Satan exists for two reasons: first, the Bible says so, and second, I’ve done business with him.”

— D.L. Moody

110. “Christ never preached any funeral sermons.”

— D.L. Moody

111. “I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is.”

— D.L. Moody

112. “Faith takes God without any ifs. If God says anything, faith says, “I believe it”; faith says, “Amen” to it.”

— D.L. Moody

113. “God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He’s even put a ‘No Fishing’ sign over the spot.”

— D.L. Moody

114. “God never made a promise that was too good to be true.”

— D.L. Moody

115. “Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred – the Bible, the crucifix, the church – if only we do not worship God Himself.”

— D.L. Moody

116. “Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.”

— D.L. Moody

117. “Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.”

— D.L. Moody

118. “If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.”

— D.L. Moody

119. “I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord’s people were divided.”

— D.L. Moody

120. “My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love.”

— D.L. Moody

121. “When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.”

— D.L. Moody

122. “David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.”

— D.L. Moody

123. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

124. “Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.”

— D.L. Moody

125. “Let us expect that God is going to use us. Let us have courage and go forward, looking to God to do great things.”

— D.L. Moody

126. “If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.”

— D.L. Moody

127. “If you don’t enter the kingdom of heaven by God’s way, you cannot enter at all.”

— D.L. Moody

128. “Temperance is love in training.”

— D.L. Moody

129. “Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies – not only outside, but also inside – just as in the days of Nehemiah.”

— D.L. Moody

130. “The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.”

— D.L. Moody

131. “Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow.”

— D.L. Moody

132. “I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.”

— D.L. Moody

133. “No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.”

— D.L. Moody

134. “Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.”

— D.L. Moody

135. “Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.”

— D.L. Moody

136. “A good example is far better than a good precept.”

— D.L. Moody

137. “Wouldn’t it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can’t enjoy them then.”

— D.L. Moody

138. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

139. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

140. “God has two thrones, on in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart.”

— D.L. Moody

141. “Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.”

— D.L. Moody

142. “So few grow, because so few study.”

— D.L. Moody

143. “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?”

— D.L. Moody

144. “There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.”

— D.L. Moody

145. “It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.”

— D.L. Moody

146. “We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.”

— D.L. Moody

147. “Faith is an outward look, not an inward look.”

— D.L. Moody

148. “I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.”

— D.L. Moody

149. “Prayer was appointed to convey The blessings God designs to give; Long as they live should Christians pray, For only while they pray they live.”

— D.L. Moody

150. “A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.”

— D.L. Moody