Dwight Lyman Moody was a predominant evangelist, author, and publisher. Raised on a farm in Massachusetts, he moved first to Boston, where he converted to evangelical Christianity in 1856, and then to Chicago, where he prospered in business. He gave up business in 1860 and engaged in missionary work with the YMCA (1861-73). He founded Moody Church and preached in the slums, emphasizing literal interpretation of the Bible and the need to prepare for the Second Coming. In 1870 he teamed up with the hymn writer Ira D. Sankey (1840-1908), and they began a series of highly popular revival tours in Britain and the U.S. Moody founded the Northfield School (1879), the Mount Hermon School (1881), and the Chicago Bible Institute (1889; now the Moody Bible Institute).
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,No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.
Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.
Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy.
To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.
A man told me a while ago he could not believe a thing he had never seen. I said, “Man, did you ever see your brain?,Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
If we make a full surrender, God will give us something better than we have ever known before. We will get a new vision of Jesus Christ, and will thank God not only in this life but in the life to come. May God help each and every one of us to make a full and complete and unconditional surrender to God, fully and wholly, now and forever.
Character is what a man is in the dark,If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.
He who kneels the most, stands the best.
The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
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. You soon detect mock humility.
I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me.
Give me a man who says this one thing I do and not these fifty things I dabble in.
Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
If we do not love one another we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
Faith makes all things possible. . . love makes all things easy.
Character is what a man is in the dark.
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian. . . and most of all, his family ought to know.
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
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?,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.
A good example is far better than a good precept.
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.
God never made a promise that was too good to be true. .
