Quotes from Dwight L. Moody

If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!

I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.

The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.

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.

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

The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further.

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

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

When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.

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

By the grace of God, I'll be that man.

The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him. By God's help, I aim to be that man.

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

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.

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then.

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.

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.