Dwight L. Moody Quotes
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
Moody, Dwight L. The Overcoming Life, and Other Sermons. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1896, p. 44.
There is much argument about this. Most generally conceed this to be so in the founding and early early years of an institution, but over long periods of time, the institutions takes on many of the characteristics of the newer leaders who cast the new "shadow". But then there are institutions where powerful boards of directors direct and imprint the organization or the power is dispersed among several people, and the founding or current leader is not that critical. This is particuarly true of institutions such as the United Nations or the United States Supreme Court, and corporations such as Hewlett Packard in the early 21st Century.
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.
