Dwight L. Moody Quotes - Page 4

Whitewashing the pump won't make the water pure.

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

'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word.

The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him.

When I was a young man I heard Henry Barley say that the world has yet to see what God can do for a man fully yielded to Him, and I said I wanted to be that man. But I can say today the world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully yielded to Him.

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

The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

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.

More depends on my walk than talk.

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

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

A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.

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.

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

I like my way of doing things better than your way of not doing them.

After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.

I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.

When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who have very slight conviction of sin sooner or later lapse back into their old life.

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

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

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.

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.

There is no better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.