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A good example is far better than a good precept.

Dwight L. Moody

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Dwight L. Moody
Age: 62 †
Born: 1837
Born: February 5
Died: 1899
Died: December 22
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Massachusetts
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There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God's hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of Heaven.
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So few grow, because so few study.
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It is clear you don't like my way of doing evangelism. You raise some good points. Frankly, I sometimes do not like my way of doing evangelism. But I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it.
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The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.
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The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ.
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How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.
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Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.
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I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.
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The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
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The Gospel of John opens with Jesus Christ in the bosom of God, and closes with the sinner in the bosom of Jesus Christ.
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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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Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily.
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Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.
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He is the Rock, His work is perfect: For all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is He.
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Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.
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When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had, and He wants us to do the same.
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Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.
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Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody forty years learning he was nobody and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.
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It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.
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Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
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