Dwight L. Moody Quotes
If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.
Moody, Dwight L. Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers of D. L. Moody. J. W. Goodspeed, 1877, p. 455.
This quotation which prohibits suicide is used by many Muslims to show that suicide bombers are anti-Islamic.
The prime minister was known to have had a serious problem with alcoholism.
In early WWII, he opposed the Japanese military practice of killing conquered civilian people to instill fear and make them accept occupation. He was arrested by the military and sentenced to death, but he never was executed. Though not generally known, there were a number of Japanese who opposed the Japanese military policies and practices. He was one.
Many children were born in the United State from parents who were in America without any documentation or were brought to America as a child. America is the only country they have ever known and they were being deported, along with their parents until President Obama put a stop to their deportation. The children born in the United States were citizens who were being deported until the practice stopped.
Dwight Lyman Moody, 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. One of his most famous quotes was “Faith makes all things possible... Love makes all things easy.“ Moody gave up his lucrative boot and shoe business to devote his life to revivalism, working first in the Civil War with Union troops through YMCA in the United States Christian Commission. In Chicago, he built one of the major evangelical centers in the nation, which is still active. Working with singer Ira Sankey, he toured the country and the British Isles, drawing large crowds with a dynamic speaking style.
