Temperance Is Love In Training – Love, Family, And Relationship Quotes – Dwight Lyman Moody.
“My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love.”
Dwight Lyman 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.”
“Temperance is love in training.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.”
“His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.”
“Lying covers a multitude of sins – temporarily.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.”
“I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“I never knew up to that time that God loved us so much. This heart of mine began to thaw out; I could not keep back the tears. I just drank it in…I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in the world and that is love.”
“Faith makes all things possible … love makes all things easy.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves.”
“If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“The Gospel of John opens with Jesus Christ in the bosom of God, and closes with the sinner in the bosom of Jesus Christ.”
“The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.”
“A good example is far better than a good precept.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“There’s no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.”
“No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words, and actions; you may be selfish; your heart may be overflowing with corruption and wickedness; yet Jesus will have compassion upon you. He will speak comforting words to you; not treat you coldly or spurn you, as perhaps those of earth would, but will speak tender words, and words of love and affection and kindness. Just come at once. He is a faithful friend – a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“The last business of Christ’s life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.”
“Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God’s favor.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian… and most of all, his family ought to know.”
“We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise at once to comfort and respectability… I never saw a man who put Christ first in his life that wasn’t successful.”
“Character is what a man is in the dark.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“The reward of service is more service.”
“Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in a manger! He was born lowly, that He might raise men up to God. The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, He loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God’s grace.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow.”
“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 Lyman Moody
“I went to preaching again. The sermons were not different; I did not present any new truths, and yet hundreds were converted. I would not now be placed back where I was before that blessed experience if you should give me all the world – it would be as dust in the balance.”
“Lust is the devil’s counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“Whatever you love more than God is your idol.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“Right now I’m having so much trouble with D.L. Moody that I don’t have time to find fault with the other fellow.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“If we do not commend the Gospel to people by our holy walk and conversation, we shall not win them to Christ. Some little act of kindness will perhaps do more to influence them than any number of long sermons.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved, whenever He heard of their affliction. It was to try them, and it is the same with His dealings toward us. If He seems not to come to us in our affliction, it is only to test us.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“God has two thrones, on in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“I thank God that the gospel is to be preached to every creature. There is no man so far gone, but the grace of God can reach him; no man so desperate or black, but He can forgive him.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord’s people were divided.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“If you can’t see His way past the tears, trust His heart.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don’t let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us.”
“Thanks be to God, there is hope to-day; this very hour you can choose Him and serve Him.”
Dwight Lyman Moody
“If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has been denied you. You will not win souls, neither will you acquire that most excellent of earthly sovereignties – sovereignty over human hearts….Love is irresistible.”
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