Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–99) was a notable American evangelist and publisher who set the pattern for later evangelism in large cities.
Born in Northfield, Massachusetts, Moody was a shoe salesman in Boston and, in 1856, went to Chicago. He gave up his job to engage in missionary work and organized the North Market Sabbath School.
In 1870, Moody was joined by Ira David Sankey (1840–1908.) In 1873 and 1883, they visited Great Britain as evangelists, Moody preaching, and Sankey singing. Moody and Sankey later worked together in America and published the Sankey and Moody Hymn Book (1873) and Gospel Hymns (1875.)
As well as conducting revivals, Moody directed annual Bible conferences at Northfield, Massachusetts, where he founded a seminary for girls in 1879. In 1899, he founded the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago (now the Moody Bible Institute.)
Biographies include James F Findlay, Jnr’s Dwight L Moody, American Evangelist: 1837–99 (1969.)
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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.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Prayer
Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Churches, Religion
Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Prayer
Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Aging, Age
If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Prayer
Give me a man who says, “This one thing I do,” and not, “These fifty things, I dabble in.”
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Purpose
Either these unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: City Life, Cities
The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Bible
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Prayer, Forgiveness
God doesn’t seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Dedication
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.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Christians, Christianity
Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Christians, Christianity
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Promises
No man can resolve himself into Heaven.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Heaven
light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord’s return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Bible
A good example is far better than a good precept.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Christianity, Christians
The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church…is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Religion
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?
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Faith
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I’ve met.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Christians, Awareness, Trouble, Integrity, Christianity, Acceptance, Realization, Being True to Yourself, Difficulty
You can always tell when a man is a great way from God—when he is always talking about himself, how good he is.
—Dwight L. Moody
We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Heaven
By the grace of God, I’ll be that man.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Dedication
There’s no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Bible
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Character, Reputation
Character is what you are in the dark.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Character
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.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Christianity, Christians
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Example
Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Faith
Suppose that a man would advertise to take photographs of the heart; would he get many customers?
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Heart
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.
—Dwight L. Moody
Topics: Light
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