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“He who kneels the most, stands the best.”
― D.L. Moody

“If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.”
― D.L. Moody

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter.”
― D.L. Moody

“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”
― D.L. Moody

“Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.”
― D.L. Moody

“The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.”
― D.L. Moody

“I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and everything that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Spirit will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit, ambition and self-seeking, pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God. I also believe that many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us. There must be a n emptying before there can be a filling; and when the heart is turned upside down, and everything that is contrary to God is turned out, then the Spirit will come...”
― D.L. Moody

“Character is what you are in the dark.”
― Dwight L. Moody

“Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.”
― D.L. Moody

“The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.”
― Dwight L. Moody

“A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.”
― D. L. Moody

“If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.”
― D.L. Moody

“I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.”
― Dwight Lyman Moody

“Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy.”
― Dwight L. Moody

“We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.”
― Dwight L. Moody

“To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.”
― Dwight Lyman Moody, Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study and Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations

“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

“Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.”
― Dwight Lyman Moody

“‎"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.”
― Dwight Moody

“If you can't see His way past the tears, trust His heart.”
― D.L. Moody

“God never made a promise that was too good to be true.”
― 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 Lyman Moody

“I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.”
― Dwight Lyman Moody, Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study and Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations

“The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him”
― Dwight Lyman Moody

“The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.”
― Dwight Lyman Moody, Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study and Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations

“So few grow, because so few study.”
― Dwight Lyman Moody, Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study and Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations

“What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture.”
― Dwight Lyman Moody, Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study and Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations

“Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; 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 school; and temperance is love in training.”
― D.L. Moody

“The more you love the Scriptures, the firmer will be your faith. There is little backsliding when people love the Scriptures.”
― D.L. Moody, Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study