Top 250 D.L. Moody Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

154. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

156. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

159. “I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.”

— D.L. Moody

160. “What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything.”

— D.L. Moody

161. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

164. “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

165. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

172. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

174. “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

175. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

177. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

179. “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

180. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

183. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

188. “Salvation is worth working for. It is worth a man’s going round the world on his hands and knees, climbing its mountains, crossing its valleys, swimming its rivers, going through all manner of hardship in order to attain it. But we do not get it in that way. It is to him who believes.”

— D.L. Moody

189. “God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.”

— D.L. Moody

190. “He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.”

— D.L. Moody

191. “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

192. “Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.”

— D.L. Moody

193. “Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.”

— D.L. Moody

194. “Christ came down to save us from a terrible hell, and any man who is cast down to hell from here must go in the full blaze of the gospel, and over the mangled body of the Son of God.”

— D.L. Moody

195. “Fiery trials make golden Christians; sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.”

— D.L. Moody

196. “If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?”

— D.L. Moody

197. “The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly.”

— D.L. Moody

198. “The tendency of the world is down – God’s path is up.”

— D.L. Moody

199. “We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.”

— D.L. Moody

200. “We may not be able to do any great thing; but if each of us will do something, however small it may be, a good deal will be accomplised for God.”

— D.L. Moody