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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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Evangelist
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Northfield
Massachusetts
Dwight L. Moody
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I like my way of doing things better than your way of not doing them.
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Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel fill it with Thy Grace.
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It is our privilege to know that we are saved.
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If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.
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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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Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily.
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The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.
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A good many preachers say I am lowering the pulpit. I am glad I am. I am trying to get it down to the level of men's hearts. If I wanted to hit Chicago I would not put the cannon on the top of this building and fire into the air. Too many preachers fire into the air.
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Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.
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I cannot convert men I can only proclaim the Gospel
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If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has been denied you. You will not win souls, neither will you acquire that most excellent of earthly sovereignties - sovereignty over human hearts....Love is irresistible.
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I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.
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The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up.
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Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
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His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.
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The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
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I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is.
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I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.
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The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it
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When I was a young man I heard Henry Barley say that the world has yet to see what God can do for a man fully yielded to Him, and I said I wanted to be that man. But I can say today the world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully yielded to Him.
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