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Quotes by D. L. Moody
When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ.— filed under Action
There was a man here last night - you needn't be afraid that I shall mention his name - who said that his will was given up to God, and who got mad because the omnibus was full, and he had to walk a mile to his lodgings.— filed under Anger
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee. 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.— filed under Bible
I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him in His work; but God cannot make much use of him, for there is not much for the Holy Ghost to work upon.— filed under Bible
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.— filed under Bible
Go through John's Gospel, and study the "believes," the verilys," the "I ams; " and go through the Bible in that way, and it becomes a new book to you.— filed under Bible
- You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency using some human instrument.— filed under Bible
The dying boy said: "Father, don't you weep for me; when I get to heaven I will go straight to Jesus and tell Him that ever that ever since I can remember you have tried to lead me to Him." I to Him." I would rather have my children say that of me after I am gone; am gone; or if they die before me, I would rather they should take that message to the Master than to have a monument over me reachme reaching to the skies.— filed under Children
The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.— filed under Christ's Sufferings and Death
Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the grave, let the judgment come, the victory is Christ's and yours through Him.— filed under Christ the Rock of Ages
Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.— filed under Church
I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.— filed under Church
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.— filed under Coming To Christ
No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.— filed under Coming To Christ
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.— filed under Coming To Christ
A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts.— filed under Conversion
What we want is men with a little courage to stand up for Christ. When Christianity wakes up, and every child that belongs to the Lord is willing to speak for Him, is willing to work for Him, and, if need be, willing to die for Him, then Christianity will advance, and we shall see the work of the Lord prosper.— filed under Courage
If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?— filed under Cross Bearing
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 - Cal vary.— filed under Death
hope I am." Suppose a People, when asked if they are Christians, give some of the strangest answers you ever heard Some will say if you ask them: "Well- well - well, I, I man should ask me if I am an American. Would I say: "Well, I - well, I - I hope I am?"— filed under Doubt
"Verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life." My friend, that is worth more than all the feeling you can have in a life-time.— filed under Feeling
My friends, does God invite you? If He does, why don't you accept the invitation? If you want to come, just come along, and don't be talking about feeling. Do you think Lazarus had any feeling when Christ called him out of the sepulchre?— filed under Feeling
If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your heads hanging down like bulrushes, complaining how poor you are; but you would lift up your heads with confidence, and proclaim the riches of His grace because you could not help it.— filed under God's Faithfulness
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.— filed under Gospel
There is not such a great difference between grace and glory after all. Grace is the bud, and glory is the blossom. Grace is glory begun; and glory is grace perfected. It won't come hard to people that are serving God down here to do it when they go up yonder. They will change places, but they won't change employments.— filed under Heaven
It may be that at this moment every battlement of heaven is alive with the redeemed. There is a sainted mother watching for her daughter. Have you no response to that long hushed voice which has prayed for you so often? And for you, young man, are there no voices there that have prayed for you? And are there none whom you promised once to meet again, if not on earth, in heaven?— filed under Heavenly Influences
The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.— filed under Holy Spirit
Without the soul divinely quickened and inspired, the observances of the grandest ritualism are as worthless as the motions of a galvanized corpse. I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.— filed under Holy Spirit
Oh, prodigal, you may be wandering on the dark mountains of sin, but God wants you to come home. The devil has been telling you lies about God; you think He will not receive you back. I tell you, He will welcome you this minute if you will Say, "I will arise and go to my Father." come.— filed under Impenitent
I bring you to the dead body of Christ. I ask you to look at the wounds in His hands and feet, and the wound in His side, And I ask you, "Will you not be reconciled?"— filed under Impenitent
It is a very solemn thought that God will excuse you if you want to be excused. He does not wish to do it, but He will do it.— filed under Impenitent
Let no time be spent in arguments. I believe that is a work of the devil, to take off attention, and cause delay. If a man comes to argue, we should go down on our knees, pray with him, and then let him go.— filed under Indifference
A good many people are complaining all the time about themselves, and crying out, "My leanness! my leanness!" when they ought rather to say, "My laziness! my laziness!"— filed under Indolence
If a man is dying for want of bread, and you give him bread, is that to make him gloomy? That is what Christ is to the soul - the Bread of Life. You will never have true pleasure or peace or joy or comfort until you have found Christ.— filed under Joy
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.— filed under Liberty
The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?— filed under Life
My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ, they are looking at the bite of sin.— filed under Looking To Jesus
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.— filed under Murmuring
After love comes peace. A great many people are trying to make peace. But that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all that we have to do is to enter into it.— filed under Peace
The promise is: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee." Now, as long as our minds are stayed on our dear selves, we shall never have peace.— filed under Peace
The law stops every man's mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.— filed under Repentance
Repentance is getting out of one train and getting into the other. You are in the wrong train; you are in the broad path that takes you down to the pit of hell. Get out of it to-day. Right-about-face.— filed under Repentance
Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord.— filed under Security
God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and sins, the gate of heaven, which is open only for sinners, saved by grace, must be shut against you forever.— filed under Self-Righteousness
- You can always tell when a man is a great ways from God he is always talking about himself, how good he is. But the moment he sees God by the eye of faith, he is down on his knees, and, like Job, he cries, "Behold I am vile."— filed under Self-Righteousness
As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.— filed under Spirituality
"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."— filed under Unbelief
Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.— filed under Worldliness