Dwight L. Moody Quotes

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.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

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.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

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.

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.

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.

I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

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.

I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.