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1837–1899 United States

Dwight Lyman Moody (5 February 1837 – 22 December 1899), also known as "D.L. Moody", was an American evangelist and publisher.

United States
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Songwriters

Also known as: D. L. Moody, D.L. Moody, Dwight Lyman Moody, Dwight Moody, Moody, Dwight L.

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I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.

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Merely reading the Bible is no use at all without we study it thoroughly, and hunt it through, as it were, for some great truth.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?

As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.

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Study the Bible topically. If you will study assurance for a week, you will soon find it is your privilege to know that you are a child of God.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

"He will reprove the world of sin" —not because men swear and lie and steal and get drunk and murder— "of sin because they believe not on me."

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

A good many people are complaining all the time about themselves, and crying out, "My leanness! my leanness!" when they ought rather to say, " My laziness! my laziness!"

My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ, they are looking at the bite of sin.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.

No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

My friends, there is one spot on earth where the fear of Death, of Sin, and of Judgment, need never trouble us, the only safe spot on earth where the sinner can stand — Calvary.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Go through John's Gospel, and study the "believes," the "verilys," the " I ams; "and go through the Bible in that way, and it becomes a new book to you.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Character is what you are in the dark.

Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The promise is: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee." Now, as long as our minds are stayed on our dear selves, we shall never have peace.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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