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Would You Be Free From The Condemnation Of The Sins That Are Past, From The Power Of The Temptations That Are To Come? Then Take Your Stand On The Rock Of Ages. Let Death, Let The Grave, Let The Judgment Come, The Victory Is Christ's And Yours Through Him.

-Dwight L. Moody

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Dwight L. Moody

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Would You Be Free From The Condemnation Of The Sins That Are Past, From The Power Of The Temptations That Are To Come? Then Take Your Stand On The Rock Of Ages. Let Death, Let The Grave, Let The Judgment Come, The Victory Is Christ's And Yours Through Him.

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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?

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Some Day You Will Read In The Papers That D.l. Moody Of East Northfield, Is Dead. Don't You Believe A Word Of It! At That Moment I Shall Be More Alive Than I Am Now; I Shall Have Gone Up Higher, That Is All, Out Of This Old Clay Tenement Into A House That Is Immortal-a Body That Death Cannot Touch, That Sin Cannot Taint; A Body Fashioned Like Unto His Glorious Body.

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Where One Man Reads The Bible, A Hundred Read You And Me.

Light For Every Darkness, Life In Death, The Promise Of Our Lord's Return, And The Assurance Of Everlasting Glory.

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Temperance Is Love In Training.

I Prayed For Faith, And Thought That Some Day Faith Would Come Down And Strike Me Like Lightning. But Faith Did Not Seem To Come. One Day I Read In The Tenth Chapter Of Romans, 'now Faith Cometh By Hearing, And Hearing By The Word Of God'. I Had Closed My Bible, And Prayed For Faith. I Now Opened My Bible, And Began To Study, And Faith Has Been Growing Ever Since.

I Know The Bible Is Inspired Because It Inspires Me.

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God Has Nothing To Say To The Self-righteous.

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.

He Is The Rock, His Work Is Perfect: For All His Ways Are Judgment: A God Of Truth And Without Iniquity, Just And Right Is He.

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

If You Have So Much Business To Attend To That You Have No Time To Pray, Depend Upon It That You Have More Business On Hand Than God Ever Intended You Should Have.

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

If We Do Not Love One Another, We Certainly Shall Not Have Much Power With God In Prayer.

Preparation For Old Age Should Begin Not Later Than One's Teens. A Life Which Is Empty Of Purpose Until 65 Will Not Suddenly Become Filled On Retirement.

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

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.

God Will Honor Our Faith.

The Voice Of Sin Is Loud, But The Voice Of Forgiveness Is Louder.

It Is Our Privilege To Know That We Are Saved.

The Bible Without The Holy Spirit Is A Sundial By Moonlight.

Christian Inspirational

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More Depends On My Walk Than Talk.

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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.

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

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Remember, A Small Light Will Do A Great Deal When It Is In A Very Dark Place. Put One Little Tallow In The Middle Of A Large Hall, And It Will Give A Good Deal Of Light.

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

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Ministry Need Not Be An Office; It's A Lifestyle Devoted To Attracting The Lost To Christ And Encouraging Other Believers In The Faith.

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Give Me A Man Who Says This One Thing I Do, And Not Those Fifty Things I Dabble In.

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The Grand Question Of Life Is, Is My Name Written In Heaven?

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Faith Is An Outward Look, Not An Inward Look.

If God Is Your Partner, Make Your Plans Big!

Christian Inspirational

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

What We Want Is Men With A Little Courage To Stand Up For Christ. When Christianity Wakes Up, And Every Child That Belongs To The Lord Is Willing To Speak For Him, Is Willing To Work For Him, And, If Need Be, Willing To Die For Him, Then Christianity Will Advance, And We Shall See The Work Of The Lord Prosper.

Some People Come To Me And Say, "mr. Moody, Don't You Feel A Great Responsibility When You Come Before An Audience Like This - Don't You Feel A Great Weight Upon Your Shoulders?" "well." I Say, "no; I Cannot Convert Men; I Can Only Proclaim The Gospel.

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

A Good Many Preachers Say I Am Lowering The Pulpit. I Am Glad I Am. I Am Trying To Get It Down To The Level Of Men's Hearts. If I Wanted To Hit Chicago I Would Not Put The Cannon On The Top Of This Building And Fire Into The Air. Too Many Preachers Fire Into The Air.

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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The World Does Not Understand Theology Or Dogma, But It Understands Love And Sympathy.

The Law Can Only Chase A Man To Calvary, No Further.

When A Man Has No Strength, If He Leans On God, He Becomes Powerful.

We May Easily Be Too Big For God To Use, But Never Too Small.

It Is Easier For Me To Have Faith In The Bible Than To Have Faith In D.l. Moody, For Moody Has Failed Me Lots Of Times.

Some People Think God Does Not Like To Be Troubled With Our Constant Coming And Asking. The Way To Trouble God Is Not To Come At All.

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.

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

I Never Saw A Fruit-bearing Christian Who Was Not A Student Of The Bible.

Faith Takes God Without Any Ifs. If God Says Anything, Faith Says, "i Believe It"; Faith Says, "amen" To It.

You Might As Well Try To Hear Without Ears Or Breathe Without Lungs, As To Try To Live A Christian Life Without The Spirit Of God In Your Heart.

You Cannot Find, I Believe, A Case In The Bible Where A Man Is Converted Without God's Calling In Some Human Agency--using Some Human Instrument.

If We Have Christ With Us, We Can Do All Things. Let Us Not Be Thinking How Weak We Are. Let Us Lift Up Our Eyes To Him And Think Of Him As Our Elder Brother Who Has All Power Given To Him In Heaven And On Earth. He Says, 'lo, I Am With You Alway, Even Unto The End Of The World.'

I Believe This Is A Mistake A Great Many Of Us Are Making; We Are Trying To Do God's Work With The Grace God Gave Us Ten Years Ago. We Say, If It Is Necessary, We Will Go On With The Same Grace. Now, What We Want Is A Fresh Supply, A Fresh Anointing And Fresh Power, And If We Seek It, And Seek It With All Our Hearts, We Will Obtain It.

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.

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 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.

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.

Every One Ought To Study The Bible With Two Ends In View: His Own Growth In Knowledge And Grace, And Passing It On To Others. We Ought To Have Four Ears,- Two For Ourselves, And Two For Other People. My Bible Is Worth A Good Deal To Me Because I Have So Many Passages Marked That, If I Am Called Upon To Speak At Any Time, I Am Ready. We Ought To Be Prepared To Pass Around Heavenly Thoughts And Truths, Just As We Do The Coin Of The Realm.

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.

Excuses Are The Cradle ... That Satan Rocks Men Off To Sleep In.

No Man Ever Sought Christ With A Heart To Find Him Who Did Not Find Him.

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

I Am Glad There Are Things In The Bible I Do Not Understand. If I Could Take That Book Up And Read It As I Would Any Other Book, I Might Think I Could Write A Book Like That.

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.

Prayer Does Not Mean That I Am To Bring God Down To My Thoughts And My Purposes, And Bend His Government According To My Foolish, Silly, And Sometimes Sinful Notions. Prayer Means That I Am To Be Raised Up Into Feeling, Into Union And Design With Him; That I Am To Enter Into His Counsel And Carry Out His Purpose Fully.

The Man That Is Popular With The World Is Not A Friend Of Jesus. You Cannot Serve Two Masters. The World Hates Christ, And If You Are A Friend Of The World You Cannot Be A Friend Of His. You May Be Sure That Something Is Wrong With You When Everybody Is Your Friend.

A Man Who Prays Much In Private Will Make Short Prayers In Public.

If I Take Care Of My Character, My Reputation Will Take Care Of Me.

If You Don't Enter The Kingdom Of Heaven By God's Way, You Cannot Enter At All.

A Missions Conference Is A Business Meeting To Decide The Fate Of The Heathen.

Earth Recedes....heav En Opens Before Me.

Give Your Life To God; He Can Do More With It Than You Can!

Thanks Be To God, There Is Hope To-day; This Very Hour You Can Choose Him And Serve Him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It May Be That At This Moment Every Battlement Of Heaven Is Alive With The Redeemed. There Is A Sainted Mother Watching For Her Daughter. Have You No Response To That Long Hushed Voice Which Has Prayed For You So Often? And For You, Young Man, Are There No Voices There That Have Prayed For You? And Are There None Whom You Promised Once To Meet Again, If Not On Earth, In Heaven?

Take Courage. We Walk In The Wilderness Today And In The Promised Land Tomorrow

You Can Always Tell When A Man Is A Great Ways From God--he Is Always Talking About Himself, How Good He Is. But The Moment He Sees God By The Eye Of Faith, He Is Down On His Knees, And, Like Job, He Cries, "behold I Am Vile.

The Best Way To Revive A Church Is To Build A Fire In The Pulpit.

When A Man Is Not Deeply Convicted Of Sin, It Is A Pretty Sure Sign That He Has Not Truly Repented. Experience Has Taught Me That Men Who Have Very Slight Conviction Of Sin Sooner Or Later Lapse Back Into Their Old Life.

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.

The Scriptures Were Not Given To Increase Our Knowledge, But To Change Our Lives.

Church Attendance Is As Vital To A Disciple As A Transfusion Of Rich, Healthy Blood To A Sick Man.

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