Quotes By D.L. Moody

"It is the only happy life to live for the salvation of souls."

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"God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves."

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"Someday you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal- a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body."

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"A good example is far better than a good precept."

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

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"Character is what a man is in the dark."

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

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

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"Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy."

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

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"God never made a promise that was too good to be true."

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"I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man."

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"I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me."

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

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

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

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"No man can resolve himself into Heaven."

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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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"The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God."

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"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."

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"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."

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

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"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."

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"There is much mourning to-day over false 'isms,' infidelity, and the like, but sum them all up, and I do not fear them one half so much as that dead and cold formalism that has crept into the Church of God."

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"God has no children too weak, but a great many too strong to make use of."

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"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."

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"The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe."