Quotes from Dwight L. Moody

The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.

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

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.

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!

Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.

When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had, and He wants us to do the same.

There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God's work cannot be done without love.

If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

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.

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.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .

It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.

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.

Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.