110+ Dwight L. Moody Quotes On Prayer, Evangelistic And Inspirational

Dwight L. Moody was an American evangelist and publisher who founded the Moody Church, Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers. He was an influential figure in the Second Great Awakening of the United States in the 19th century and was known for his public speaking and mass evangelism. Moody's message of personal salvation and social reform was influential in the spread of evangelicalism in the United States and around the world. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Dwight L. Moody on prayer, evangelistic, inspirational.

Top 10 Dwight L. Moody Quotes

1. We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
2. God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!
3. Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.
4. The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.
5. Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.
6. When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.
7. Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
8. I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.
9. 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.
10. Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

Dwight L. Moody Image Quotes

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength. — Dwight L. Moody

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. — Dwight L. Moody

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. — Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me. — Dwight L. Moody

God never made a promise that was too good to be true. — Dwight L. Moody

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible. — Dwight L. Moody

Dwight L. Moody Short Quotes

• If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
• David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.
• God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
• The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.
• The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .
• There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.
• God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
• If the Savior could die for the world, can't we work for it?
• We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
• Character is what you are in the dark.

Dwight L. Moody Quotes About Prayer

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. — Dwight L. Moody

In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking. — Dwight L. Moody

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask. — Dwight L. Moody

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public. — Dwight L. Moody

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

Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot. — Dwight L. Moody

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

Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered. — Dwight L. Moody

How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it. — Dwight L. Moody

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words. — Dwight L. Moody

Dwight L. Moody Quotes About Inspirational

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 — Dwight L. Moody

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow — Dwight L. Moody

If I walk with the world, I can't walk with God. — Dwight L. Moody

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

Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it. — 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! — Dwight L. Moody

I believe Satan exists for two reasons: first, the Bible says so, and second, I've done business with him. — Dwight L. Moody

God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls. — Dwight L. Moody

Dwight L. Moody Quotes About Christianity

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. — Dwight L. Moody

What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything. — Dwight L. Moody

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

If we have Christ with us, we can do all things. Let us not be thinking how weak we are. Let us lift up our eyes to Him and think of Him as our Elder Brother who has all power given to Him in Heaven and on earth. He says, 'Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.' — Dwight L. Moody

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man. — Dwight L. Moody

Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor. — Dwight L. Moody

You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart. — Dwight L. Moody

I believe hundreds of Christian people are being deceived by Satan now on this point, that they have not got the assurance of salvation just because they are not willing to take God at His word. — Dwight L. Moody

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

Dwight L. Moody Quotes About Religion

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

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. — 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? — Dwight L. Moody

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can! — Dwight L. Moody

Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light. — Dwight L. Moody

I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that you have got to go into a cave to be consecrated, and stay there all your life. Whatever you take up, take it up with all your heart. — Dwight L. Moody

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian. — Dwight L. Moody

My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love. — Dwight L. Moody

Dwight L. Moody Quotes About Bible

Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit. — Dwight L. Moody

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible. — Dwight L. Moody

The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

It is easier for me to have faith in the Bible than to have faith in D.L. Moody, for Moody has failed me lots of times. — Dwight L. Moody

Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself. — Dwight L. Moody

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

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. — Dwight L. Moody

Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory. — Dwight L. Moody

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. — Dwight L. Moody

Dwight L. Moody Quotes About Jesus

The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend. — Dwight L. Moody

It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise at once to comfort and respectability... I never saw a man who put Christ first in his life that wasn't successful. — Dwight L. Moody

The Gospel of John opens with Jesus Christ in the bosom of God, and closes with the sinner in the bosom of Jesus Christ. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts. — Dwight L. Moody

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray. — Dwight L. Moody

The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ. — Dwight L. Moody

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings! — Dwight L. Moody

The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ. — Dwight L. Moody

Dwight L. Moody Quotes About Heaven

It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven. — Dwight L. Moody

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

No man can resolve himself into Heaven. — Dwight L. Moody

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

If you don't enter the kingdom of heaven by God's way, you cannot enter at all. — Dwight L. Moody

How far away is Heaven? It is not so far as some imagine. It wasn't very far from Daniel. It was not so far off that Elijah's prayer and those of others could not be heard there. Men full of the Spirit can look right into heaven. — Dwight L. Moody

The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven? — Dwight L. Moody

God has two thrones, on in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart. — Dwight L. Moody

There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God's hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of Heaven. — Dwight L. Moody

Dwight L. Moody Famous Quotes And Sayings

Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody. — Dwight L. Moody

Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training. — Dwight L. Moody

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. — Dwight L. Moody

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. — Dwight L. Moody

There is no use in running before you are sent; there is no use in attempting to do God's work without God's power. A man working without this unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the Holy Ghost upon him, is losing time after all. — Dwight L. Moody

God never made a promise that was too good to be true. — Dwight L. Moody

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible. — Dwight L. Moody

Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows through persecution and opposition. It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring the world can't see and doesn't know anything about. — Dwight L. Moody

Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in a manger! He was born lowly, that He might raise men up to God. The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, He loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God's grace. — Dwight L. Moody

If God tells us to do a thing we are to do it; if He tells us to believe a thing, we are to believe it; we are to have faith in God. Have faith in God, and if God tells you to believe a thing believe it, and then you will have peace and confidence and joy. — Dwight L. Moody

If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week. — Dwight L. Moody

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use. — Dwight L. Moody

It is clear you don't like my way of doing evangelism. You raise some good points. Frankly, I sometimes do not like my way of doing evangelism. But I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

In Proverbs we read: 'He that winneth souls is wise.' If any man, women, or child by a godly life and example can win one soul to God, his life will not have been a failure. He will have outshone all the mighty men of his day, because he will have set a stream in motion that will flow on and on forever and ever. — Dwight L. Moody

I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

Ministry need not be an office; it's a lifestyle devoted to attracting the lost to Christ and encouraging other believers in the faith. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace. — Dwight L. Moody

When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had, and He wants us to do the same. — Dwight L. Moody

Thanks be to God, there is hope to-day; this very hour you can choose Him and serve Him. — Dwight L. Moody

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God! — Dwight L. Moody

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. — Dwight L. Moody

A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the next 6 months, nor can he inhale sufficient air into his lungs with one breath to sustain life for a week to come. We are permitted to draw upon God's store of grace from day to day as we need it. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

There is no true prayer without confession. As long as we have unconfessed sin in our soul, we are not going to have power with God in prayer. He says if we regard iniquity in our hearts, He will not hear us, much less answer. As long as we are living in any known sin, we have no power in prayer. God is not going to hear it. — Dwight L. Moody

I like my way of doing things better than your way of not doing them. — Dwight L. Moody

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in. — Dwight L. Moody

No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him. — Dwight L. Moody

By the grace of God, I'll be that man. — Dwight L. Moody

Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad. — Dwight L. Moody

Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Dwight L. Moody

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 hope I am." Suppose a man should ask me if I am an American. Would I say: "Well, I - well, I - I hope I am? — Dwight L. Moody

When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced. — Dwight L. Moody

Faith takes God without any ifs. If God says anything, faith says, "I believe it"; faith says, "Amen" to it. — Dwight L. Moody

The best work usually meets the strongest opposition. — Dwight L. Moody

Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust. — Dwight L. Moody

Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me. — Dwight L. Moody

Right now I'm having so much trouble with D.L. Moody that I don't have time to find fault with the other fellow. — Dwight L. Moody

Life Lessons by Dwight L. Moody

1. Dwight L. Moody taught the importance of faith, hard work, and humility. He believed that success comes from doing the right thing and that we should strive to be the best version of ourselves. He also encouraged us to be generous and to serve others with kindness and compassion.
2. Dwight L. Moody encouraged us to be optimistic and to always look for the good in people and situations. He taught us to be patient and to trust in God's plan for our lives. He also reminded us to be thankful for the blessings we have and to use them to serve others.
3. Dwight L. Moody showed us that we can achieve great things with faith, dedication, and a positive attitude. He also taught us to never give up, no matter how hard the