Top 250 D.L. Moody Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

154. “God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.”

— D.L. Moody

155. “Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us.”

— D.L. Moody

156. “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

157. “Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.”

— D.L. Moody

158. “Ministry need not be an office; it’s a lifestyle devoted to attracting the lost to Christ and encouraging other believers in the faith.”

— D.L. Moody

159. “God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.”

— D.L. Moody

160. “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.”

— D.L. Moody

161. “The last business of Christ’s life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.”

— D.L. Moody

162. “Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.”

— D.L. Moody

163. “The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.”

— D.L. Moody

164. “The reward of service is more service.”

— D.L. Moody

165. “A missions conference is a business meeting to decide the fate of the heathen.”

— D.L. Moody

166. “A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.”

— D.L. Moody

167. “We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.”

— D.L. Moody

168. “A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.”

— D.L. Moody

169. “When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.”

— D.L. Moody

170. “When the church, the pulpit, and the pew get united, and God’s people are all of one mind, Christianity is like a red-hot ball rolling over the earth, and all the hosts of death and hell cannot stand before it.”

— D.L. Moody

171. “The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord’s work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.”

— D.L. Moody

172. “When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.”

— D.L. Moody

173. “I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.”

— D.L. Moody

174. “Too often we knock at mercy’s door, and then run away, instead of waiting for an entrance and an answer.”

— D.L. Moody

175. “No man can resolve himself into Heaven.”

— D.L. Moody

176. “The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?”

— D.L. Moody

177. “I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.”

— D.L. Moody

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178. “The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.”

— D.L. Moody

179. “It is our privilege to know that we are saved.”

— D.L. Moody

180. “I was born of the flesh in 1837. I was born of the Spirit in 1856.”

— D.L. Moody

181. “Either these – unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.”

— D.L. Moody

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182. “I once read these words on a tombstone: “Born, died, kept.” Let us pray God to keep us in perfect peace, and assured of salvation.”

— D.L. Moody

183. “Faith has no desire to have its own will, when that will is not in accordance with the mind of God; for such a desire would at bottom be the impulse of an unbelief which did not rely upon God’s judgment as our best guide. Faith knows that God’s will is the highest good, and that anything which is beneficial to us will be granted to our petitions.”

— D.L. Moody

184. “If God tells us to do a thing we are to do it; if He tells us to believe a thing, we are to believe it; we are to have faith in God. Have faith in God, and if God tells you to believe a thing believe it, and then you will have peace and confidence and joy.”

— D.L. Moody

185. “What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture.”

— D.L. Moody

186. “Faith gives us living joy and dying rest.”

— D.L. Moody

187. “I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel.”

— D.L. Moody

188. “A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts.”

— D.L. Moody

189. “Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.”

— D.L. Moody

190. “If the Savior could die for the world, can’t we work for it?”

— D.L. Moody

191. “A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved, whenever He heard of their affliction. It was to try them, and it is the same with His dealings toward us. If He seems not to come to us in our affliction, it is only to test us.”

— D.L. Moody

192. “If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.”

— D.L. Moody

193. “There is no use in running before you are sent; there is no use in attempting to do God’s work without God’s power. A man working without this unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the Holy Ghost upon him, is losing time after all.”

— D.L. Moody

194. “Thanks be to God, there is hope to-day; this very hour you can choose Him and serve Him.”

— D.L. Moody

195. “Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light.”

— D.L. Moody

196. “If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.”

— D.L. Moody

197. “There is the joy of one’s own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others.”

— D.L. Moody

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198. “I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ’s funeral sermons, but I couldn’t find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn’t exist where He was.”

— D.L. Moody

199. “Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.”

— D.L. Moody

200. “Dr. Bonar once said that he could tell when a Christian was growing. In proportion to his growth in grace he would elevate his Master, talk less of what he himself was doing, and become smaller and smaller in his own esteem, until, like the morning star, he faded away before the rising sun.”

— D.L. Moody