Some one asked him how he was converted. “I know that,” he said; “he died in my stead. “Well, my friend,” I said, “I don’t think there is any chance for you to become a Christian until you make restitution.” He said, “If I attempt to do that, I will fall into the clutches of the law, and I will go to the penitentiary.” “Well,” I replied, “you had better do that than go to the judgment-seat of God with that sin upon your soul, and have eternal punishment. “When a panorama is to pass before an audience, the artist darkens the room in which they sit, so that the picture may be more fully seen. She said, “I don’t want the child,” but her husband said, “You must take it and look after it.” She said she had enough to do with her own, and she told her husband to take that child away. He will never satisfy. I don’t want to have anything to do with him. what do you say?” And then, falling back on his pillow, feebly exclaimed, “It is too late! When he got there, he picked the boy up in his arms, and brought him up to the house. You, too, may be nearer the judgment than you think. Nothing can satisfy the longings of the soul but the Word of the living God. An old minister once invited a young brother to preach for him. He said afterward he thought he never saw so many fools together in his life before. How anxiously I would count those strokes of the bell to see how long I might reckon on living! “What is the policeman going to do with that invitation?” Moody, I wish you would tell me how I can become a Christian.” The tears were rolling down her cheeks, and she was in a very favorable mood. At first I used to stand off from the rod as far as I could. “What makes you so full of joy?” Give yourself up to be led by it, and you will come out of darkness, out of bondage, out of sorrow, into perpetual light and joy. “They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.” When Christ has the first place in your heart you are going to get victory. The moon borrows light from the sun, and so we borrow ours from the Sun of Righteousness.” That is what takes place when we have this illumination. That is right. He was a noted miser, but he was converted. “Up in heaven.” Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 – December 22, 1899), also known as D. L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher connected with Keswickianism, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now Northfield Mount Hermon School), Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers. On one occasion the preacher had to send some one into the gallery to wake me up. You see, Satan came in between him and the preacher, and caught away the good seed of the Word. For many years a close colleague of Mr. Moody Originally published in 1900 as a 555-page book. “Yes, He cannot see my sins through the blood of Christ.”, Some time ago I read in one of the daily papers a thing that pleased me very much. But the longer I live the more I am convinced it is a greater thing to influence a man’s will; a man whose will is set against God; to have that will broken and brought into subjection to God’s will—or, in other words, it is a greater thing to have power over a living, sinning, God-hating man, than to quicken the dead. It is not so much the white robes, the golden crown, or the harps of gold, but it is the society we shall meet there. “Deacon, can you tell me how far it is to hell?” In 1871 I preached a series of sermons on the life of Christ in old Farwell hall, Chicago, for five nights. “I hab hearn folks say, ‘Hope I has ‘ligion, but I doan know’; but I neber hearn a man say, ‘I hope’s I has money, but I doan know.’ Dat sorter ‘ligion dat yer hopes ye’s got, but doan know, ain’t gwine to do no mo’ good dan der money what yer hopes ye’s got but doan know.”, An English army officer in India who had been living an impure life went round one evening to argue religion with the chaplain. If a boy kills his mother by his conduct, you can’t call it anything else than murder, and he is as truly guilty of breaking the sixth commandment as if he drove a dagger to her heart. A boy of fifteen years of age was in the audience, driven into the chapel by a snowstorm. Now, that is what we ought to be, constantly drawing in the rays of the Sun of Righteousness and then giving them out. P. C.,” and he understood it to mean, “Go preach Christ.” If you were to pay ever so little, it would not be a gift. “We won’t let you in.” They say they can have more influence for good, but I say that they can have more influence for “Didn’t I tell you I would catch you?” D. L. Moody's Testimony to the Gospel "Paul says in the 15th of the 1st of Corinthians what the gospel is. See more ideas about moody quotes, quotes, moody. “You talk like a madman,” they cried; but the man stuck to his point that he had been dead and buried some months. He was very anxious that all his employés should be reached, and he used to send them one by one to the meetings. “I have a peace that I never knew of before. Within three months the whole thing smashed up, and one of them was converted shortly after. Your names must be sent on beforehand, and entered in its book, else you won’t get in; but get your names inscribed on its pages, and then you won’t be disappointed. “Religion is all very well, but you must admit that there are difficulties—about the miracles, for instance.” And the young man proves to be weak-kneed; he cannot stand the scoffs and the sneers and the jeers of his companions; and so he becomes untrue to his principles, and gives them up. Witness Lee, Main | Haven’t we all got failings? If his heart is in lands, it won’t be long before he’s talking about real estate, improvements, houses, and so on. The Master is still calling you. Why, it is a downright insult! There is one passage of Scripture which has always been a great comfort to me. He said that at a revival meeting a little lad who was used to Methodist ways, went home to his mother and said: Very few kind words were associated with the day. The thought flashed across my mind, “Will there be no difference? Let a covetous person see something that he desires very much; let an opportunity of taking it be offered; how very soon he will break through the shell and come out in his true character as a thief.” The Greek word translated “covetousness” means—an inordinate desire of getting. “Indeed I didn’t. “Why,” she said, “if I should go home and tell my infidel husband that I had found Christ, I don’t know what he would do. He said before he knew it a lot of these little English sparrows got under that tree (and you know they cannot sing any more than I can, and I don’t know one note from another), and went, “Chirp, chirp, chirp.” Before he knew it, that little canary had lost all its sweet notes. Then in April, Mount Vernon Church held a revival. How can you throw this place open to ruin the young men of Chicago?” The governor refused to let her have the body, but she cherished the memory of that boy as long as she lived. He wrote back that he didn’t care how she was dressed, and urged so strongly that she went. A little child gives a good illustration of faith. Repeatedly stressing that the spiritual issue was one of choice and of yielding one’s will to Another, Kirk emphasized that this choice led to a life of faith. The blood is on the mercy-seat, and the vilest sinner can be saved for time and eternity. Its strength was underestimated. And so it is in heaven. Presently, when the surgeon touches another spot, “Ouch!” says the man. However, it was a long time yet until the afternoon, and after a little he began to play. So we may say that if God were to give us grace enough for a lifetime, we should not know how to use it. The officer asked what was the trouble, and he told him. But the little candle within spoke up and said: “Yes, you’d be a great comfort if it wasn’t for me! For Parents Whenever I speak to parents, two fathers come before me. One of the best definitions was given by a soldier. The guide smiled, and replied: “I think we shall get above the storm soon.” A man may sow thistle-seed with grain-seed in a moment of pique against his master, and the master may forgive him, but the man will have to reap the thistles with the grain. It was to be a gateway to death and to hell, one of the worst places in Chicago. Moody’s Stories Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations. That great Christian leader, the late Rev. Sambo said he wished he had given him ten dollars, and let the lot go. When he started home he could not get this little word out of his head; it kept coming back all the time. “Were you at such a place on such a night?” asked the first. And yet when you talk with them you find they have faith, and you cannot say they are not children of God; but they have not the power, the liberty, the love that real disciples of Christ should have. Moody was not a professional theologian, not even an ordained minister. D. L. Moody. Suppose I meet a man who is sowing seed, and say, If you find yourself getting very miserly, begin to scatter, like a wealthy farmer in New York state I heard of. We shall condemn ourselves, and we shall stand before God speechless. The perspiration started out of every pore of my body; I thought they were looking at me. At last she took the clothes and threw them over the child and smothered it. They all understood what fast horses were—they knew a good deal more about fast horses than they knew about the kingdom of God. D. L. Moody, the famous Evangelist, when eighteen years of age, was a boot salesman in his uncle's store in Boston. He took a chestnut leaf and told me to put my tongue to it. He looked all around, but he could not see him. “Do you hurt a lily when you pluck it? Do you think I argued with him? In his small book, Why God Used D.L. “Why, papa,” the little fellow would say, “how funny you talk. Perhaps the very next step they take may take them into eternity; the next day they may die without God and without hope. Moody, the founder of Moody Bible Institute and it's original ministries. “I will tell you what I mean,” I said; “the man that comes into my house and runs a dagger into my heart for my money is a prince compared with a son that takes five years to kill me and the wife of my bosom. David Maas. Moody Over the next eleven months, Dwight listened to sermon after sermon from Dr. Edward Norris Kirk. “Well, what do you see now?” Moody, can I go to the theater if I become a Christian?” D.L. A dying man can believe. Moody, I have profound respect for you, profound admiration for you, but I do not believe a word you say.” “Yes, my son, I am so glad you are a Christian; that is the only comfort that I have in losing you. He had gone to California on the usual hunt—gold; and when he saw the two columns placed side by side, the excellence of the one over the other was irresistible, and he was the first soul God gave me on that Pacific coast. The servants called her Lady Pendulum. Now, I am a scientific man, and I have taken the pains to examine an ass’s mouth, and it is so formed that it couldn’t speak.” They had just come to a place where there was a fork in the road, and there was a sign-post which read, “Forty miles to Liberty.” Jesus is there, the Holy Father is there, the Spirit is there—our Father, our elder Brother, our Comforter. The old slave, with all his ignorance, had even then experienced a liberty in his own soul that these young men, with all their boasted education, at that time knew nothing of. Said the merchant: “You have been a faithful friend. They counted the world-famous evangelist, Dwight L. Moody, among their friends. 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