Quotes by D.L. Moody
D.L. Moody (1837–1899) — Evangelist · Evangelikal · USA
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899) war ein US-amerikanischer Evangelist und Gründer von Bildungs- und Verlagseinrichtungen mit Chicago als zentralem Wirkungsort. Er prägte die frühe Massenevangelisation durch eine lebensnahe Verkündigung der Gnade Gottes, sah sich jedoch auch Kritik an theologischer Vereinfachung sowie seiner Duldung von Rassentrennung bei Veranstaltungen in den US-Südstaaten ausgesetzt. Für Bibelleser verkörpert er eine auf praktische Nachfolge ausgerichtete Laienfrömmigkeit, die das evangelikale Christentum institutionell nachhaltig prägte.
Era: Revival & the 19th Century
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Humility & Pride, Prayer & Silence, Witness & Mission, Guilt & Forgiveness, Service & Love of Neighbour, Grace & Redemption, The Bible & the Word of God
Quotes by D.L. Moody
We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small.
D.L. Moody
We are leaky vessels and must constantly stay under the spring to always be filled.
D.L. Moody
Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.
D.L. Moody
The thief had nails through both hands, so that he could not work; and a nail through each foot, so that he could not run errands for the Lord; he could not lift a hand or a foot toward his salvation, and yet Christ offered him the gift of God; and he took it. Christ threw him a passport, and took him into Paradise.
D.L. Moody
When I was a young Christian, I thought that God kept His gifts on shelves and the best gifts were on the highest shelves and I would have to reach up. I learned later the best gifts are on the lowest shelf and I had to stoop down.
D.L. Moody
Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.
D.L. Moody
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.
D.L. Moody
Let God have your life; He can do more with it than you can.
D.L. Moody
One in a hundred reads the Bible; the other 99 read the Christian.
D.L. Moody
A holy life will make the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they just shine.
D.L. Moody
Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.
D.L. Moody
No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.
D.L. Moody
The Bible was not given to increase our knowledge but to change our lives.
D.L. Moody
When Christians find themselves exposed to temptation they should pray to God to uphold them, and when they are tempted they should not be discouraged. It is not a sin to be tempted; the sin is to fall into temptation.
D.L. Moody
I have more trouble with D. L. Moody than with any other man I have ever met.
D.L. Moody
True faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength.
D.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.
D.L. Moody
In the morning I pray for two hours that he saves souls. The rest of the day I help him answer my prayers.
D.L. Moody
God gave me the money that day because I needed it. But often I asked him when I only believed I needed the money, and then he said: No, Moody, see how you get along. It will do you more good if I stay firm for a while.
D.L. Moody
Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.
D.L. Moody
The earth is receding, heaven is opening before me! If this is death, then death is sweet. God is calling me, and I must go. Do not hold me back.
D.L. Moody
Forgiveness is not that stripe which says, "I will forgive, but not forget." It is not to bury the hatchet with the handle sticking out of the ground, so you can grasp it the minute you want it.
D.L. Moody
Looking at the wound of sin will never save anyone. What you must do is look at the remedy.
D.L. Moody
As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves… Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!
D.L. Moody
Repentance is a tear in the eye of faith.
D.L. Moody
Hope is like the sun: it casts the shadows behind us as we walk to meet it.
D.L. Moody
A good many are kept out of the service of Christ, deprived of the luxury of working for God, because they are trying to do some great thing. Let us be willing to do little things. And let us remember that nothing is small in which God is the source.
D.L. Moody
The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.
D.L. Moody
God has two thrones. One in the highest heavens and one in the humblest heart.
D.L. Moody
My friends, there is only one spot on earth where the fear of death, sin, and judgment will not trouble us; the only safe spot on earth where the sinner can stand: Calvary.
D.L. Moody
There is not a better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit
D.L. Moody
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
D.L. Moody
If you have so much work that you can no longer pray, then be assured that you have more business than God intends for you to have.
D.L. Moody
Earth recedes. Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.
D.L. Moody
God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
D.L. Moody
God wants us to shine. We cannot all be lighthouses, but any of us can be a tallow candle.
D.L. Moody
David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.
D.L. Moody
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
D.L. Moody
It is God's Word that saves souls, not our commentary on it.
D.L. Moody
Behind every work of God you will find a kneeling Christian.
D.L. Moody
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