Quotes from Dwight L. Moody

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.

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.

The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

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

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.

Right now I'm having so much trouble with D.L. Moody that I don't have time to find fault with the other fellow.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!

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

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.

Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

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.

Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.

If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.

I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.

Temperance is love in training.

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

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it