Dwight Lyman Moody

“I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me.”

“The best law for Bible study is the law of perseverance.”

“This is the test as to your being a true child of God - whether you love and feed upon the Word of God.”

“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.”

“Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.”

“People can get along without your theories and opinions, "Thus saith the Lord" - that is what we want.”

“Prophecy is history unfulfilled, and history is prophecy fulfilled.”

“May God deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament and talks against the Old!”

“If an angel should come and tell a different story from that in the Book, don't believe it.”

“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.”

“It is not our work to make men believe: that is the work of the Holy Spirit.”

“Bear in mind there is no situation in life for which you cannot find some word of consolation in Scripture.”

“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.”

“So few grow, because so few study.”

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

“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”

“A great many men are kept out of the kingdom of God because they are looking for somebody else’s experience—the experience their grandmother had, their aunt, or some one in the family.”

“Wherever the Gospel is proclaimed, there should be an expectation of immediate results, and if this were the case the Church of Christ would be in a constant state of grace.”

“Every man ought to take down some of the preacher’s words and ideas, and go into some lane or by-way, and preach them again to others. We ought to have four ears—two for ourselves and two for other people.”

“If God did not wish us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.”

“Others read the Bible to make it fit in and prove their favorite creed or notions; and if it does not do so, they will not read it. It has been well said that we must not read the Bible by the blue light of Presbyterianism; nor by the red light of Methodism; nor by the violet light of Episcopalianism; but by the light of the Spirit of God.”

“A worldly Christian is just like a wrecked vessel at sea.”

“A man ought to live so that everybody will know he is a Christian.”

“There’s not a denomination in the world that didn’t spring from a revival.”

“Do you know what I do when any man preaches against the doctrines I preach? I go to the Bible and find out what it says, and if I am right I give them more of the same kind.”

“The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.”

“No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.”

“I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.”