Quotes from Dwight L. Moody

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

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.

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

Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

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.

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.

If we do not love one another we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love.

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.

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

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

More depends on my walk than talk.

You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.

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.