D. L. Moody

D. L. MoodyDwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899), also known as D. L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher connected with Keswickianism, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers.

D. L. Moody Quotes

The world cannot, and never could, satisfy a hungry soul. The Lord Jesus can.

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God is always true to what He promises to do. He made promises to Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and Joshua, and did He not fulfill them? He will fulfill every word of what He has promised; yet how few take Him at His word!

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We don’t know what is before us, but if we have received Jesus Christ, let storms come, let deaths come, let sickness come, let pestilence come, we are sure of life beyond the grave.

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Why, if God has said He will do a thing, shall we turn around and insult Him by doubting?

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All these men that are trying to pick the Word of God to pieces, trying to destroy our confidence in the Word of God, tell us it is not true; but any one who has ever tried God, who has ever proved God, has found Him to be true.

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We may be very weak in ourselves, but see what a mighty God we have.

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We could no more earn a place in the heart of the Father than we could satisfy the claims of the righteous Judge. All is of free grace.

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There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.

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If you receive Jesus Christ, you will love him more than you will love yourself. He will be dearer to you than yourself.

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Don’t you see that if you get your heart set on earthly things, you will be disappointed; but if your heart is set on heavenly things, you will have peace all the while.

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When you are a child of God, you will love the things that God loves. What you once hated you will love, and what you once loved, you will hate.

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I don’t object to seeing men weep over their sins. I don’t know why it is not manly for a man to weep over his sins. It is more manly than to trifle with salvation, and make light of serious things. A great many men seem to be ashamed to shed tears over their sins.

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We are living in very strange days. Some people tell us it does not make any difference what a man believes in if he is only sincere. No greater delusion ever came out of the pit of hell than that. It is ruining more souls at present than anything else.

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My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer, we have got to be closeted with God.

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The spirit of “Who shall be the greatest?” is still one of the greatest hindrances to the church of God today – the endeavor to win for ourselves honor and esteem.

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Let us bear in mind that nothing is too hard for God, and He delights in doing hard things.

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The voice of sin may be loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.

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Let us pray as we are walking down the street, let us pray in our families, let us pray in our business, and let us pray all the time.

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That is a true test of discipleship, if a man can forgive those that have trespassed against him, those that have injured him.

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When a minister or a messenger of Christ begins to change the message because he thinks it is not exactly what it ought to be, and thinks he is wiser than God, God just dismisses that man.

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My friends, I tell you it makes all the difference in the world whether a man believes a truth or a lie.

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Men may think God is winking at sin now-a-days, and isn’t going to punish sin, because He does not execute His judgments speedily, but “be not deceived, God is not mocked.”

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There are more people ruined by flattery than by telling them their faults. The Holy Ghost never flatters, but convicts us of sin, and that is the reason many don’t like Him.

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The man who is living right with God is always praising Him. The blessings He showers upon us are more numerous than the hairs of our heads.

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Some men say, “I am not worthy to come.” I never knew a man yet that was worthy. He does not profess to save worthy men; he saves sinners.

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If a man gets his eye off God, and relies on his own strength, you may look for his fall.

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Our strength will fail us. The strength of our friends will fail us. If we trust in our money it will take wings and fly away. If we trust in the love of our friends, they will leave us. A mother may forget her child, but God will never forget us.

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I don’t think any man or woman knows what true liberty is until they have been set free by the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Trust in him at all times, in the dark as well as in the light.

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Let’s pray that we may get self out of the way, that Christ may be all in all.

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