Quotes by Dwight L. Moody

Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; 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 tough situations; and temperance is love in training.

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.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

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.

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.

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.

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

In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.

There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.

The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.