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.
The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him
God has given me a lifeboat and said… ‘Moody save all you can
”I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, ‘Moody, save all you can.
If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.
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.
There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God’s work cannot be done without love.
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.
Spread out your petition before God and then say “Thy will not mine be done.” The sweetest lesson I have learned in God’s school is to let the Lord choose for me.
Spread out your petition before God and then say “Thy will not mine be done.” The sweetest lesson I have learned in God’s school is to let the Lord choose for me.
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.
Death may be the King of terrors… but Jesus is the King of kings!
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.
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.
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.
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 doesn’t seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.