Dwight L. Moody quotes - page 2

Dwight L. Moody was an influential American evangelist and publisher. His dynamic preaching and focus on practical Christianity led to major religious revivals and the founding of many institutions, including the Moody Bible Institute. He played a key role in shaping modern evangelicalism and urban ministry in the United States. Here are 55 of his quotes:

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

Dwight L. Moody

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

Dwight L. Moody

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?

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

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

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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.

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

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

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

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I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

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No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

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Christ died for the ungodly. And if you turn to Him at this moment with an honest heart, and receive Him simply as your Saviour and your God, I have the authority of His word for telling you that He will in no wise cast out.

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Study the Bible topically. If you will study assurance for a week, you will soon find it is your privilege to know that you are a child of God.

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He will reprove the world of sin" -not because men swear and lie and steal and get drunk and murder- "of sin because they believe not on me.

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I have come a hundred miles," said a minister, "to get some of Mr. Moody's spirit." " You don't want my spirit," was the reply. "What you want is the Spirit of God.

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My friends, there is one spot on earth where the fear of Death, of Sin, and of Judgment, need never trouble us, the only safe spot on earth where the sinner can stand - Calvary.

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Merely reading the Bible is no use at all without we study it thoroughly, and hunt it through, as it were, for some great truth.

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We are to come to Christ. This is the primal duty. The doctrines are but highways that lead to Him. But when we come to Christ we must receive Him as our Saviour.

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

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The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church. . . is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

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