The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons Quotes

“Notice that all those who have made a deep impression on the world, and have shone most brightly have been men who lived in a dark day.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“Every man, the moment he takes his eye off God, has failed. Every man has been a failure at some period of his life. Abraham failed. Moses failed. Elijah failed. Take the men that have become so famous and that were so mighty—the moment they got their eye off God, they were weak like other men; and it is a very singular thing that those men failed on the strongest point in their character. I suppose it was because they were not on the watch. Abraham”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“Then we must remember that we are to let our light shine. It does not say, “Make your light shine.” You do not have to make light to shine; all you have to do is to let it shine.”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“The fiercest attacks are made on the strongest forts, and the fiercer the battle the young believer is called on to wage, the surer evidence it is of the work of the Holy Spirit in his heart. God will not desert him in his time of need, any more than He deserted His people of old when they were hard pressed by their foes.”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“But a good many Christian people make this mistake: they think the battle is already fought and won. They have an idea that all they have to do is to put the oars down in the bottom of the boat, and the current will drift them into the ocean of God’s eternal love. But we have to cross the current. We have to learn how to watch and fight, and how to overcome. The battle is only just commenced. The Christian life is a conflict and a warfare, and the quicker we find it out the better. There”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“If you cannot come as a saint, come as a sinner. Only come!”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“I would not give much for a man’s Christianity if he is saved himself and is not willing to try and save others. It seems to me the basest ingratitude if we do not reach out the hand to others who are down in the same pit from which we were delivered.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“This earth, if we are Christians, is not our home; it is up yonder. God has sent us into the world to shine for Him—to light up this dark world.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“Every temptation you overcome makes you stronger to overcome others, while every temptation that defeats you makes you weaker.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“Let me quote a few words by Dr. Chalmers: “Thousands of men breathe, move and live, pass off the stage of life, and are heard no more—Why? They do not partake of good in the world, and none were blessed by them; none could point to them as the means of their redemption; not a line they wrote, not a word they spoke could be recalled; and so they perished; their light went out in darkness, and they were not remembered more than insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die, O man immortal? Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love and mercy, on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year; you will never be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“The most glorious triumphs of the Church have been won in times of persecution. The early church was persecuted for about three hundred years after the crucifixion, and they were years of growth and progress. But then, as Saint Augustine has said, the cross passed from the scene of public executions to the diadem of the Caesars, and the down-grade movement began. When the Church has joined hands with the State, it has invariably retrograded in spirituality and effectiveness; but the opposition of the State has only served to purify it of all dross. It was persecution that gave Scotland to Presbyterianism. It was persecution that gave this country to civil and religious freedom.”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“Go and do a good turn for that person of whom you are jealous. That is the way to cure jealousy; it will kill it. Jealousy is a devil, it is a horrid monster. The”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“Christianity isn’t worth a snap of your finger if it doesn’t straighten out your character. I have got tired of all mere gush and sentiment. If people can’t tell when you are telling the truth, there is something radically wrong, and you had better straighten it out right away. Now,”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“Someone has pointed out that “I” is the centre of S-I-N. It is the medium through which Satan acts. And so the worst enemy you have to overcome, after all, is yourself. When”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“I would go and ask his wife. I tell you, we want more home piety just now. If a man doesn’t treat his wife right, I don’t want to hear him talk about Christianity. What is the use of his talking about salvation for the next life, if he has no salvation for this? We want a Christianity that goes into our homes and everyday lives. Some”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“The reason why so many Christians fail all through life is just this—they under-estimate the strength of the enemy. My dear friend; you and I have got a terrible enemy to contend with. Don’t let Satan deceive you. Unless you are spiritually dead, it means warfare. Nearly everything around tends to draw us away from God. We do not step clear out of Egypt on to the throne of God. There is the wilderness journey, and there are enemies in the land.”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“They were ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the power of God unto salvation.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“John 6:37: ‘Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“Him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“Let us be dead to the world, to its lies, its pleasures, and its ambitions. Let us live for God, continually going forth to win souls for Him.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“A broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“Christianity isn’t worth a snap of your finger if it doesn’t straighten out your character.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“Now the next I will is in John, seventeenth chapter, twenty-fourth verse: “Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am.” This was in His last prayer in the guest-chamber, on the last night before He was crucified and died that terrible death on Calvary. Many a believer’s countenance begins to light up at the thought that he shall see the King in His beauty by and by. Yes;”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“Then there is another I will in John, sixth chapter, verse forty; it occurs four times in the chapter: “I will raise him up at the last day.” I rejoice to think that I have a Savior who has power over death. My blessed Master holds the keys him, and I got more comfort out of that promise “I will raise him up at the last day,” than anything else in the Bible. How”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“The next “I will” is in John, fourteenth chapter, verse eighteen: “I will not leave you comfortless.” To me it is a sweet thought that Christ has not left us alone in this dark wilderness here below. Although”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“All church members ought to be third class passengers—ready to dismount and push all together, and push with a will. That was John Wesley’s definition of a church—“All at it, and always at it.” Every Christian ought to be a worker. He need not be a preacher, he need not be an evangelist, to be useful. He”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“The next I will is the “I will” of service. There are a good many Christians who have been quickened and aroused to say, “I want to do some service for Christ.” Well, Christ says, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“You are ashamed to open your Bible and read that blessed Psalm, “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.” You are ashamed to be seen on your knees. No man can be a disciple of Jesus Christ without bearing His cross. A great many people want to know how it is Jesus Christ has so few disciples, whilst Mahomet has so many. The reason is that Mahomet gives no cross to bear. There”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“Now turn to Matthew, tenth chapter, thirty-second verse: “Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.” There’s the “I will” of confession.”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

“The next “I will” is found in Luke, fifth chapter. We read of a leper who came to Christ, and said: “Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean.” The Lord touched him, saying, “I will: be thou clean”; and immediately the leprosy left him.”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons