Dwight L. Moody Quotes

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization

You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

Oh Lord, help me change my ways, Show a litlle mercy on judgement day, It aint me I was raised this way, Never let em' play me for a busta, Makin' hell for a huslter.

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

He that does not repent, sins again.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.