D.L. Moody Quotes

       Dwight Lyman Moody
       1837-1899
      
       D. L. Moody was an American evangelist who founded the Northfield Schools in Massachusetts, Moody Church and Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and the Colportage Association.
      
       As a young man, he spent his evenings in missionary work among the lowly and destitute of the city. This work grew to such proportions that he was induced to give up his profitable business engagements and to devote all his time to religious work in connection with the local Young Men's Christian Association of which he became president. He soon became known as one of the most acceptable public speakers of the country, and was in constant demand at Christian conventions throughout the West and South.
      
       Mr. Moody is supposed to have spoken to more people, and addressed larger audiences than any man of his generation. D. L. Moody was undoubtedly one of the greatest evangelists of all time. The meetings held by Moody and Sankey were among the greatest the world has ever known. They were the means under God of arousing the church to new life and activity, and were the means of sweeping tens of thousands of persons into the kingdom of God.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.     Topics: Achievement We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.     Topics: Affliction, Prosperity Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.     Topics: Attitude If I walk with the world, I can't walk with God.     Topics: Carnality The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up.     Topics: Carnality Character is what a man is in the dark.     Topics: Character If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.     Topics: Character A creed is the road or street. It is very good as far as it goes, but if it doesn't take us to Christ it is worthless.     Topics: Christ A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.     Topics: Christians, Family Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.     Topics: Church, Discipleship, Illness The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in many of our churches.     Topics: Church God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.     Topics: Conversion