Top 250 D.L. Moody Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

205. “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

206. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

208. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

210. “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

211. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

217. “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

218. “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

219. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

225. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

229. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

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

— D.L. Moody

232. “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

233. “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

234. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

236. “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

237. “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

238. “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

239. “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

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

— D.L. Moody

241. “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

242. “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

243. “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

244. “The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.”

— D.L. Moody

245. “The law stops every man’s mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.”

— D.L. Moody

246. “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

247. “God doesn’t seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.”

— D.L. Moody

248. “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

249. “I thank God that the gospel is to be preached to every creature. There is no man so far gone, but the grace of God can reach him; no man so desperate or black, but He can forgive him.”

— D.L. Moody

250. “It is a good deal better to have life in Christ and God than any where else. I would rather have my life hid with Christ in God than be in Eden as Adam was. Adam might have remained in Paradise for 16,000 years, and then fallen, but if ours is hid in Christ, how safe!”

— D.L. Moody