A Life for Christ Quotes

“drunkards need anyone to condemn them? There is no one in the wide world who can condemn them as they condemn themselves. What they need is sympathy − tenderness, gentleness, and kindness.”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

“A man can preach the truth. He can be perfectly sound in doctrine, but if there is no love in his heart going out to those whom he addresses, and if he is doing it only professionally, the apostle says he is only sounding brass.”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

“But no one can be a true worker for God and a successful winner of souls without love.”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

“As I said before, love is the key that will unlock every human heart. No man or woman in all this land is so low and so degraded that you can’t reach them with love, gentleness, and kindness. It may take years, but it can be done.”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

“Someone with this mindset might say, “The man didn’t touch my heart at all.” Another may say, “He was all heart and no head. I like a man to preach to my intellect.” Or, “He appeals too much to the will. He doesn’t give enough importance to the doctrine of election.” Or, again, “There is no backbone in his preaching. He doesn’t stress doctrine sufficiently.” Or, “He’s not eloquent.” Such complaints go on and on. You can find hundreds of such faultfinders among professed Christians, but all their criticism won’t lead a single soul to Christ.”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

“In the gospel of John, we read that at the tomb of Lazarus, our Lord said to His disciples, Take ye away the stone (John 11:39). Before the act of raising Lazarus could be performed, the disciples had their part to do. Christ could have removed the stone with a word and easily commanded it to roll away. It would have obeyed His voice, like the dead Lazarus did when He called him back to life. But the Lord wants His children to learn this lesson: They have something to do towards raising the spiritually dead. The disciples not only had to take away the stone, but after Christ raised Lazarus they were told to also loose him, and let him go (John 11:44). Consider this question: how often are people converted without God using some human instrument in some way? God could easily convert all men without us, but that isn’t His way. The stone I want to talk about is a stone that must be rolled away before any great work of God can be accomplished. It is the wretched stone of prejudice. Many people have a huge prejudice against revivals. They hate the very word. And I am sorry to say this feeling isn’t confined to the ungodly or people who couldn’t care less. The truth is, there happens to be quite a few Christians who seem to hold a strong dislike both toward the word revival and to the event itself.”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

“Each one helped his neighbour; and each one said to his brother, Be of good courage. (Isaiah 41:6)”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

“I believe that for every spiritual difficulty there is some promise in the Word of God to meet that difficulty. But if you keep your feelings and your troubles all locked up, how are you to be helped? I might stand and preach to you for thirty days without touching on your particular difficulty. But a twenty-minute private conversation can clear away all your doubts and troubles.”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

“So let’s not be discouraged. Instead, let’s use all these wonderful opportunities and honor God by expecting great things. If we do, we won’t be disappointed. God is ready and willing to work, if we are ready and willing to let Him and to be used by Him.”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

“finding of some hidden treasure and bringing it back to the light.”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

“What’s the problem throughout Christendom today in connection with Sunday school? It is that so many drop through the Sunday school net when they grow up to the age of sixteen or so, and that’s the last we see of them. Many young men who were once Sunday school students are now in our prisons. The cause of that is that so few teachers believe the children can be converted when they are young. They don’t work to bring them to a knowledge of Christ, but are content only to go on sowing the seed. Let a teacher resolve that with God’s help, he won’t rest until he sees his whole class brought into the kingdom of God. If he determines to do this, he will see signs and wonders inside of thirty days.”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

“This earth, if we are Christians, is not our home. It is up in heaven with the Lord.”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

“Let’s believe for them, if they won’t believe for themselves. There may be some who are reading this book who don’t believe in the Bible, or in the gospel of the Son of God. Let us bring them to Christ in the arms of our faith.”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

“God also wants His children to serve Him because of something other than duty. He doesn’t want us to feel it is difficult to do His will.”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not love, it profits me nothing (vv. 1-3).”
― Dwight L. Moody, A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like