Secret Power Quotes

“It is the work of the Spirit to impress the heart and seal the preached word. His office is to take of the things of Christ and reveal them unto us.”
― D.L. Moody, Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“There are a great many people now that are willing to observe what they like about Christ, but the things that they don’t like they just dismiss and turn away from.”
― D.L. Moody, Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“I believe firmly, that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking, and everything 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. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us. There must be an emptying before there can be a filling; and when the heart is turned upside”
― D.L. Moody, Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“I don’t think a man gains much by loading himself down with weapons to defend himself. There has been life enough sacrificed in this country to teach men a lesson in this regard. The Word of God is a much better protection than the revolver.”
― D.L. Moody, Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“The only true, happy Christian is one that is growing, constantly growing in the love and favor of God, growing in all those delightful graces of the Spirit.”
― Dwight L. Moody, Secret Power: The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“To form the habit of finding fault constantly, is very damaging to spiritual life; it is about the lowest and meanest position that a man can take.”
― D.L. Moody, Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“We can not work for God without love. It is the only tree that can produce fruit on this sin-cursed earth, that is acceptable to God. If I have no love for God nor for my fellow man, then I can not work acceptably. I”
― D.L. Moody, Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“Some put on a strange kind of dress, that they may be known as Christians, and some put on a crucifix, or something else, that they may be known as Christians. But love is the only badge by which the disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ are known. “By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one toward another.” Therefore,”
― D.L. Moody, Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“The first work of the Spirit is to give life – spiritual life. He gives it and He sustains”
― Dwight L. Moody, Secret Power: The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“I believe when we bring the church down to the level of the world to reach the world, we are losing our opportunities and grieving the Spirit of God.”
― Dwight L. Moody, Secret Power: The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“In the 119th psalm we find that those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing shall cause them to stumble [offend them] (Psalm 119:165).”
― Dwight L. Moody, Secret Power: The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“The surest way to win our families, our neighbors, and others to Christ is to adorn the doctrine of Jesus Christ in our lives and grow in all these graces. If we have peace, joy, love, gentleness, goodness, and temperance, we shall have a quiet and silent power proceeding from us.”
― Dwight L. Moody, Secret Power: The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“We can not serve God, we can not work for God unless we have love.”
― D.L. Moody, Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the Church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity.”
― D.L. Moody, Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“Human eloquence or persuasiveness of speech are the mere trappings of the dead, if the living Spirit be absent; the prophet may preach to the bones in the valley, but it must be the breath from Heaven which will cause the slain to live.”
― D.L. Moody, Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“This body that we inhabit for a day, and then leave, we take good care of; we feed it three times a day, and we clothe it, and take care of it, and deck it, and by and by it is going into the grave to be eaten up by the worms; but the inner man, that is to live on and on, and on forever, is lean and starved. SWEET”
― D.L. Moody, Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“wherever I have found a worker in God’s vineyard who has lost hope, I have found a man or woman not very useful. Now, just look at these workers. Let your mind go over the past for a moment. Can you think of a man or woman whom God has used to build His kingdom who has lost hope? I don’t know of any; I never heard of such an one. It is very important to have hope in the Church; and it is the work of the Holy Ghost to impart hope. Let Him come into some of the churches where there have not been any conversions for a few years, and let Him convert a score of people, and see how hopeful the Church becomes at once. He imparts hope; a man filled with the Spirit of God will be very hopeful. He will be looking out into the future, and he knows that it is all bright, because the God of all grace is able to do great things. So it is very important that we have hope.”
― D.L. Moody, Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work