Top 250 D.L. Moody Quotes (2025 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. “It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.”

— D.L. Moody

103. “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

104. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

105. “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

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

— 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. “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

111. “Christ never preached any funeral sermons.”

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

114. “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

115. “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

116. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

118. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

120. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

122. “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

123. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

126. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

129. “Temperance is love in training.”

— D.L. Moody

130. “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

131. “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

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

— 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 I pray, I talk to God, but when I read the Bible, God is talking to me;.”

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

141. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

144. “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

145. “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

146. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

150. “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