The Overcoming Life Quotes

“To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“If I wanted to find out whether a man was a Christian, I wouldn’t go to his minister. I would go and ask his wife. We need more Christian life at home. If a man doesn’t treat his wife right, I don’t want to hear him talk about Christianity.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life: Updated Edition

“Humility consists not in thinking poorly of ourselves but in not thinking of ourselves at all.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“Only a man who can govern himself is fit to govern other men.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“If I wanted to find out whether a man was a Christian, I wouldn’t go to his minister. I would go and ask his wife.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life: Updated Edition

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves – James 1:22 D.”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life: Updated Edition

“Unconfessed sin in the soul is like a bullet in the body.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life: Updated Edition

“There is one more thing to consider. I have to overcome the world, or the world is going to overcome me. I have to conquer sin in me and get it under my feet, or it is going to conquer me.”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life: Updated Edition

“Let others praise you. Don’t praise yourself. If we want God to lift us up, let us get down. The lower we get, the higher God will lift us.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“Conscience is a divinely implanted ability in man, telling him that he ought to do right.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life: Updated Edition

“There are natives in Central Africa who never dreamed that they were dark-skinned until they saw the face of a white man.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life: Updated Edition

“A wealthy farmer in New York, who was known for hoarding his wealth and being a very selfish man, was converted. Soon after his conversion, a poor man came to him and asked for help. He had lost everything and had no provisions. This young convert thought he would be generous and give him a ham from his smokehouse. He started toward the smokehouse, and on the way, the tempter said, “Give him the smallest one you have.” He struggled all the way to the smokehouse as to whether he would give a large or a small one. In order to overcome his selfishness, he took down the biggest ham he had and gave it to the man. The tempter said, “You’re a fool.” But he replied, “If you don’t keep silent, I’ll give him every ham I have in the smokehouse.” If you find that you are selfish, give something away. Determine to overcome that spirit of selfishness and to keep your body under, no matter what it may cost.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“When you get angry next time and speak unkindly to a person and realize it, go and ask that person to forgive you. You won’t get mad with that person for the next twenty-four hours. You might do it in about forty-eight hours, but go the second time. After you’ve done that about half a dozen times, you’ll change your behavior, because apologizing makes the old flesh burn.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“For we walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). The most immature Christians I know are those who want to walk by sight. They want to see how a thing is going to come out. That isn’t walking by faith at all. That’s walking by sight.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“The fiercest attacks are made on the strongest forts.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“My friends, we have got to have a higher type of Christianity, or the church is gone. It is wrong for men or women to profess what they don’t possess. If you are not overcoming temptations, the world is overcoming you. Just get on your knees and ask God to help you. My friends, let us to go God and ask Him to search us. Let us ask Him to wake us up, and let us not think that just because we are church members we are all right. We are all wrong if we are not getting victory over sin.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“LEARN OF ME, for I am meek and lowly in heart” (Matthew 11:29). There is no harder lesson to learn than the lesson of humility. It is not taught in the schools of men, only in the schools of Christ. It is the rarest of all the gifts. Very rarely do we find a man or woman who is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and in humility. I believe that it is the hardest lesson that Jesus Christ had to teach His disciples while He was here upon earth. It almost looked at first as though He had failed to teach it to the twelve men who had been with Him almost constantly for three years.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“We are far too concerned about confessing other people’s sins. If we are interested in true repentance, we will have as much as we can handle to look after our own. When a man or woman gets a good look into God’s looking glass, he doesn’t find fault with other people as much as he does in himself.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“The time is coming when Christ will be worth more to you than ten thousand worlds like this. He is offered to you now. Today is the day of grace. Now is the day of mercy. If you read your Bible carefully, you will find that God always precedes judgment with grace. Grace is a forerunner of judgment.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“It’s wrong for a man or woman to profess what they don’t possess. If you are not overcoming temptations, the world is overcoming you. Just get on your knees and ask God to help you. Let us go to God, and ask Him to search us. Let’s ask Him to wake us up and not think that just because we are church members we are all right. We are all wrong if we aren’t achieving victory over sin.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“God made the soul a little too large for this world. We could possess the entire world and a void would still exist.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“Every dart Satan fires at us can be quenched by faith. By faith, we can overcome the Evil One. To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“Conscience compared with the Bible is like a flashlight compared with the sun in the heavens.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“We need a modern-day John the Baptist wandering through the land crying, “Repent! Repent!”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life: Updated Edition

“There are natives in Central Africa who never dreamed that they were dark-skinned until they saw the face of a white man. A great many people in this world never knew they were sinful until they saw the face of Jesus Christ in all its purity.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life: Updated Edition

“right.” If you have to stand alone, stand.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life: Updated Edition

“Love of the world means a lack of consideration for the eternal future because of a love for passing things.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life: Updated Edition

“If you find that you are selfish, give something away. Determine to overcome that spirit of selfishness and to keep your body under, no matter what it may cost.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life: Updated Edition

“Many men want a religion in which there is no cross, but they cannot enter heaven that way.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life: Updated Edition

“Notice that everything human in this world fails. Every man, the moment he takes his eyes off God, fails.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life: Updated Edition