“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn’t really matter.”1
“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 an 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…”
“If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.”
“If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.”
“Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy.”
“Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.”
“Depend upon it, my friends, if you get tired of the Word of God, and it becomes wearisome to you, you are out of communion with Him.”
“I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, ‘Moody, save all you can.’”
“The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him.”
“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.”
“A man ought to live so that everybody will know he is a Christian.”
“Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don’t want to be heavenly-minded while they live.”
“It is not our work to make men believe: that is the work of the Holy Spirit.”
“I thank God there is a height in that Book [Bible] I do not know anything about, a depth I have never been able to fathom, and it makes the Book all the more fascinating.”
“Read the Bible, my friends, as if you were seeking for something of value. It is a good deal better to take a single chapter, and spend a month on it, than to read the Bible at random for a month.”
“Bear in mind there is no situation in life for which you cannot find some word of consolation in Scripture.”
“It is a comforting thing to know that the Lord will not begin the good work without also finishing it.”
“God doesn’t seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.”
“A man acquainted with God has more power than any earthly potentate. Gold can’t do everything.”
“God makes a promise; Faith believes it; Hope anticipates it; and Patience quietly awaits it.”
“I fought against it for months; but the best thing I ever did was when I surrendered my will, and let the will of God be done in me.”
“SOME day you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I shall have gone up higher, that is all; gone out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal, a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint, a body like unto His own glorious body. I was born of the flesh in 1837. I was born of the Spirit in 1856. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit will live forever.”
1 All of these quotes are from the following website: