Top 250 D.L. Moody Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us.”

— D.L. Moody

152. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

155. “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

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. “The reward of service is more service.”

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

163. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

165. “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

166. “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

167. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

173. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

179. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

181. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

183. “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

184. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

186. “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

187. “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

188. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

190. “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

191. “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

192. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

194. “Seeking to perpetuate one’s name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.”

— D.L. Moody

195. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

197. “A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing.”

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

200. “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