Top 250 D.L. Moody Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

204. “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

205. “Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill.”

— D.L. Moody

206. “Let others praise you. Don’t praise yourself. If we want God to lift us up, let us get down. The lower we get, the higher God will lift us.”

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

210. “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

211. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

213. “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

214. “I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.”

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

217. “More depends on my walk than talk.”

— D.L. Moody

218. “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

219. “A good many preachers say I am lowering the pulpit. I am glad I am. I am trying to get it down to the level of men’s hearts. If I wanted to hit Chicago I would not put the cannon on the top of this building and fire into the air. Too many preachers fire into the air.”

— D.L. Moody

220. “My experience is that those who pray most in their closets generally make short prayers in public.”

— D.L. Moody

221. “It is the only happy life to live for the salvation of souls.”

— D.L. Moody

222. “There cannot be any peace where there is uncertainty.”

— D.L. Moody

223. “A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.”

— D.L. Moody

224. “No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.”

— D.L. Moody

225. “I went to preaching again. The sermons were not different; I did not present any new truths, and yet hundreds were converted. I would not now be placed back where I was before that blessed experience if you should give me all the world – it would be as dust in the balance.”

— D.L. Moody

226. “If we have done wrong to some one, we should never ask God to forgive us until we are willing to make restitution.”

— D.L. Moody

227. “We are not fountains ourselves; but the Word of God is the true fountain.”

— D.L. Moody

228. “Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.”

— D.L. Moody

229. “How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.”

— D.L. Moody

230. “You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God’s calling in some human agency – using some human instrument.”

— D.L. Moody

231. “If we have Christ with us, we can do all things. Let us not be thinking how weak we are. Let us lift up our eyes to Him and think of Him as our Elder Brother who has all power given to Him in Heaven and on earth. He says, ‘Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.’”

— D.L. Moody

232. “His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.”

— D.L. Moody

233. “There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.”

— D.L. Moody

234. “We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.”

— D.L. Moody

235. “Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.”

— D.L. Moody

236. “I know I have a first-rate mind, but that’s no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.”

— D.L. Moody

237. “God had no children too weak, but a great many too strong to make use of.”

— D.L. Moody

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238. “It is not the man that can preach the best that is the most successful, but the man who knows how to get his people together to pray.”

— D.L. Moody

239. “I think we shall find a great many of our prayers that we thought unanswered answered when we get to heaven.”

— D.L. Moody

240. “It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God’s law as a balance weight.”

— D.L. Moody

241. “The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer.”

— D.L. Moody

242. “Faith is taking God at His Word;.”

— D.L. Moody

243. “Humility consists not in thinking poorly of ourselves but in not thinking of ourselves at all.”

— D.L. Moody

244. “If we love the Lord Jesus Christ the burden of our hearts will be that God may bring us closer together, so that we may love one another and rise above all party feeling.”

— D.L. Moody

245. “If you are strong-headed, read about Moses and Peter. If you lack courage, look at Elijah. If there is no song in your heart, listen to David. If you are a politician, read Daniel. If you are morally corrupt, read Isaiah. If your heart is cold, read of the beloved disciple, John. If your faith is low, read Paul. If you are getting lazy, learn from James. If you are losing sight of the future, read in Revelation of the Promised Land.”

— D.L. Moody

246. “Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the grave, let the judgment come, the victory is Christ’s and yours through Him.”

— D.L. Moody

247. “A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.”

— D.L. Moody

248. “As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.”

— D.L. Moody

249. “If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.”

— D.L. Moody

250. “Lying covers a multitude of sins – temporarily.”

— D.L. Moody