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Inspiring Quotes from Evangelist Dwight L. Moody – Part III

“God doesn’t expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!”1

“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.”

“The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.”

“I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.”

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

“Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow.”

“There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God’s hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of Heaven.”

“Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows through persecution and opposition. It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring the world can’t see and doesn’t know anything about.”

“God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He’s even put a ‘No Fishing’ sign over the spot.”

“Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength.”

“I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.”

“God will not accept a divided heart.  He must be absolute monarch.  There is not room in your heart for two thrones.  You cannot mix the worship of the true God with the worship of any other god more than you can mix oil and water.  It cannot be done.  There is not room for any other throne in the heart if Christ is there.  If worldliness should come in, godliness would go out.”

“The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.”

“Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.”

“It does not take long to tell where a man’s treasure is.  In fifteen minutes’ conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.”

“The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer.”

“Some say if only my fears and doubts will leave then I will get to work. But instead you should get to work and then your fears and doubts will leave.”

“The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.”

“No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.”

“He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.”

“We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.”

“Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.”


1 All of these quotes are from the website below:

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