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If You Were To Spend A Month Feeding On The Precious Promises Of God, You Would Not Be Going About With Your Heads Hanging Down Like Bulrushes, Complaining How Poor You Are; But You Would Lift Up Your Heads With Confidence, And Proclaim The Riches Of His Grace Because You Could Not Help It.

-Dwight L. Moody

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Dwight L. Moody

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If You Were To Spend A Month Feeding On The Precious Promises Of God, You Would Not Be Going About With Your Heads Hanging Down Like Bulrushes, Complaining How Poor You Are; But You Would Lift Up Your Heads With Confidence, And Proclaim The Riches Of His Grace Because You Could Not Help It.

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It Is Better To Be A Little Too Strict Than Too Liberal.

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I Now Opened My Bible And Began To Study, And Faith Has Been Growing Ever Since.

The Best Work Usually Meets The Strongest Opposition.

The Object Of The Bible Is Not To Tell How Good Men Are, But How Bad Men Can Become Good.

My Friends, If We Are Going To Do A Great Work For God, We Must Spend Much Time In Prayer; We Have Got To Be Closeted With God.

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A Man Can No More Take In A Supply Of Grace For The Future Than He Can Eat Enough Today To Last Him For The Next 6 Months, Nor Can He Inhale Sufficient Air Into His Lungs With One Breath To Sustain Life For A Week To Come. We Are Permitted To Draw Upon God's Store Of Grace From Day To Day As We Need It.

Some Men’s Prayers Need To Be Cut Short At Both Ends And Set On Fire In The Middle.

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After We Have Made Our Requests Known To Him, Our Language Should Be, "thy Will Be Done". I Would A Thousand Times Rather That Gods' Will Should Be Done Than My Own.

Use Me Then, My Saviour For Whatever Purpose And Whatever Way Thou Mayest Require. Here Is My Poor Heart, And Empty Vessel; Fill It With Thy Grace.

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.

His Is A Loving, Tender Hand, Full Of Sympathy And Compassion.

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My Friends, Look To Christ, And Not To Yourselves. That Is What Is The Matter With A Great Many Sinners; Instead Of Looking To Christ, They Are Looking At The Bite Of Sin.

If God Tells Us To Do A Thing We Are To Do It; If He Tells Us To Believe A Thing, We Are To Believe It; We Are To Have Faith In God. Have Faith In God, And If God Tells You To Believe A Thing Believe It, And Then You Will Have Peace And Confidence And Joy.

People, When Asked If They Are Christians, Give Some Of The Strangest Answers You Ever Heard. Some Will Say If You Ask Them: "well - Well - Well, I, - I Hope I Am." Suppose A Man Should Ask Me If I Am An American. Would I Say: "well, I - Well, I - I Hope I Am?

I Would Rather A Thousand Times Be Five Minutes At The Feet Of Christ Than Listen A Lifetime To All The Wise Men In The World.

True Will-power And Courage Are Not On The Battlefield, But In Everyday Conquests Over Our Intertia, Laziness, Boredom.

Satan Is Willing To Have Us Worship Anything, However Sacred - The Bible, The Crucifix, The Church - If Only We Do Not Worship God Himself.

It Is Our Privilege To Know That We Are Saved.

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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.

Small Numbers Make No Difference To God. There Is Nothing Small If God Is In It.

Grace Means Undeserved Kindness. It Is The Gift Of God To Man The Moment He Sees He Is Unworthy Of God's Favor.

God Never Made A Promise That Was Too Good To Be True.

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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.

My Heart Goes Out To You, And I Long To See You All Coming Constantly To God For A Fresh Supply Of Love.

God Commands Us To Be Filled With The Spirit, And If We Are Not Filled, It Is Because We Are Living Beneath Our Privileges

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.

A Man To Be Converted Has To Give Up His Will, His Ways, And His Thoughts.

Whatever You Love More Than God Is Your Idol.

I Firmly Believe That The Moment Our Hearts Are Emptied Of Pride And Selfishness And Ambition And Self-seeking And Every Thing That Is Contrary To God's Law, The Holy Ghost Will Come And Fill Every Corner Of Our Hearts; But If We Are Full Of Pride And Conceit And Ambition And Self-seeking And Pleasure And The World, There Is No Room For The Spirit Of God; And I Believe Many A Man Is Praying To God To Fill Him When He Is Full Already With Something Else.

Many A Professing Christian Is A Stumbling-block Because His Worship Is Divided. On Sunday He Worships God; On Weekdays God Has Little Or No Place In His Thoughts.

There Is The Joy Of One's Own Salvation. I Thought, When I First Tasted That, It Was The Most Delicious Joy I Had Ever Known, And That I Could Never Get Beyond It. But I Found, Afterward, There Was Something More Joyful That, Namely, The Joy Of The Salvation Of Others.

There's No Better Book With Which To Defend The Bible Than The Bible Itself.

Be Humble, Or You'll Stumble.

Grace Isn't A Little Prayer You Chant Before Receiving A Meal. It's A Way To Live. The Law Tells Me How Crooked I Am. Grace Comes Along And Straightens Me Out.

God Has Cast Our Confessed Sins Into The Depths Of The Sea, And He's Even Put A 'no Fishing' Sign Over The Spot.

God Has Two Thrones, On In The Highest Heavens, The Other In The Lowliest Heart.

If God Did Not Want Us To Understand The Book Of Revelation, He Would Not Have Given It To Us At All.

I Know I Have A First-rate Mind, But That`s No Source Of Pride To Me. Intelligent People Are A Dime A Dozen. But I Am Proud Of Having Character.

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.

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 Measure Of A Man Is Not How Many Servants He Has But How Many Men He Serves .

Measure Of A Man

I Have Had More Trouble With Myself Than With Any Other Man I Have Ever Met.

When God Gave Christ To This World, He Gave The Best He Had, And He Wants Us To Do The Same.

Is There Any Reason Why You Should Not Have Faith In God? Has God Ever Broken One Of His Promises? I Defy Any Infidel Or Unbeliever To Place A Finger On A Single Promise Of God Ever Made And Failed To Fulfill.

I Have Never Met A Man Who Has Given Me As Much Trouble As Myself.

The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death Holds No Darkness For The Child Of God. There Must Be Light, Else There Could Be No Shadow. Jesus Is The Light. He Has Overcome Death.

Shadow Of Death

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.

We May Sing Our Hymns And Psalms, And Offer Prayers, But They Will Be An Abomination To God, Unless We Are Willing To Be Thoroughly Straightforward In Our Daily Life.

I Hunted All Through The Four Gospels Trying To Find One Of Christ's Funeral Sermons, But I Couldn't Find Any. I Found He Broke Up Every Funeral He Ever Attended! Death Couldn't Exist Where He Was.

This Lost World Will Never Be Reached And Brought Back To Loyalty To God, Until The Children Of God Wake Up To The Fact That They Have A Mission In The World. If We Are True Christians We Should All Be Missionaries.

The Last Business Of Christ's Life Was The Saving Of A Poor Penitent Thief.

I'd Rather Get Ten Men To Do The Job Than To Do The Job Of Ten Men.

How Many People Would Like To Get Up In A Social Prayer-meeting To Say A Few Words For Christ, But There Is Such A Cold Spirit Of Criticism In The Church That They Dare Not Do It.

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 Dying Boy Said: " Father, Don't You Weep For Me; When I Get To Heaven I Will Go Straight To Jesus And Tell Him That Ever Since I Can Remember You Have Tried To Lead Me To Him." I Would Rather Have My Children Say That Of Me After I Am Gone; Or If They Die Before Me, I Would Rather They Should Take That Message To The Master Than To Have A Monument Over Me Reaching To The Skies.

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.

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.

I Like My Way Of Doing Things Better Than Your Way Of Not Doing Them.

The Resurrection Is The Keystone Of The Arch On Which Our Faith Is Supported. If Christ Has Not Risen, We Must Impeach All Those Witnesses For Lying. If Christ Has Not Risen, We Have No Proof That The Crucifixion Of Jesus Differed From That Of The Two Thieves Who Suffered With Him. If Christ Has Not Risen, It Is Impossible To Believe His Atoning Death Was Accepted.

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.

The Son Of God Passed By The Mansions And Went Down In A Manger That He Might Sympathize With The Lowly.

It Is The Only Happy Life To Live For The Salvation Of Souls.

Many Of The Bible Characters Fell Just In The Things In Which They Were Thought To Be Strongest. Moses Failed In His Humility, Abraham In His Faith, Elijah In His Courage, For One Woman Scared Him Away To That Juniper-tree; And Peter, Whose Strong Point Was Boldness, Was So Frightened By A Maid, As To Deny His Lord.

'faith Cometh By Hearing And Hearing By The Word Of God' (rom. 10:17). That Is Whence Faith Comes. It Is Not For Me To Sit Down And Wait For Faith To Come Stealing Over Me With A Strong Sensation, But Is For Me To Take God At His Word.

Sometimes When Your Child Talks, Your Friends Cannot Understand What He Says; But The Mother Understands Very Well. So If Our Prayer Comes From The Heart, God Understands Our Language.

We Are Not Fountains Ourselves; But The Word Of God Is The True Fountain.

A Great Many People Are Trying To Make Peace, But That Has Already Been Done. God Has Not Left It For Us To Do; All We Have To Do Is To Enter Into It.

The Bible Will Keep You From Sin, Or Sin Will Keep You From The Bible.

If You Were To Spend A Month Feeding On The Precious Promises Of God, You Would Not Be Going About With Your Heads Hanging Down Like Bulrushes, Complaining How Poor You Are; But You Would Lift Up Your Heads With Confidence, And Proclaim The Riches Of His Grace Because You Could Not Help It.

Moses Spent Forty Years In The King's Palace Thinking That He Was Somebody; Then He Lived Forty Years In The Wilderness Finding Out That Without God He Was A Nobody; Finally He Spent Forty More Years Discovering How A Nobody With God Can Be A Somebody.

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.

No One Should Ever Preach On The Topic Of Hell Without A Tear In His Eye.

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.

If A Man Gets Drunk And Goes Out And Breaks His Leg So That It Must Be Amputated, God Will Forgive Him If He Asks It, But He Will Have To Hop Around On One Leg All His Life.

Fervency In Prayer By The Power Of The Holy Spirit Is A Good Preservative Against Thoughts Rushing In. Flies Never Settle On The Boiling Pot.

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