GOLD. – Dwight Lyman Moody

—The way to heaven is straight as an arrow.

—Heaven is just as much a place as Chicago. It is a destination.

INFIDELITY.

—What reason have I for doubting God’s own word? —I just as much believe that God sent Christ into the wprld to be the Saviour of the world, as I believe that I exist.

INTEMPERANCE.

—The drunkard, the open blasphemer, the worst sinners, are precisely the ones that need Jesus most. The well don’t need Him at all.

—There is many a gem in these billiard halls that only needs the way pointed out to fill their souls with the love of Christ.

LIBERTY.

—If you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ you are free.

—There is no sin in the whole catalogue of sins you can name but Christ will deliver you from it perfectly.

—We are led on by an unseen power that we have not got strength to resist, or else we are led on by the loving Son of God.

—The trouble is, people do not know that Christ is a Deliverer. They forget that the Son of God came to keep them from sin as as well as to forgive it.

—-You say “I am afraid I cannot hold out.” Well, Christ will hold out for you. There is no mountain that He will not climb with you if you will; He will deliver you from your besetting sin.

—Satan rules all men that are in his kingdom. Some he rules through lust. Some he rules through covetousness. Some he rules through appetite. Some he rules by their temper, but he rules them. And none will ever seek to be delivered until they get their eyes open and see that they have been taken captive.

—When Christ was on the earth there was a woman in the temple who was bowed almost to the ground with sin. Satan had bound her for eighteen years; but after all these years of bondage Christ delivered her. He spoke one word and she was free. She got up and walked home. How astonished those at home must have been to see her walking in.

PRAISE.

—Praise is not only speaking to the Lord on our own account, but it is praising Him for what He has done for others.

—If we have a praise church we will have people converted. I don’t care where it is, what part of the world it’s in, if we have a praise church we’ll have successful Christianity.

—Every good gift that we have had from the cradle up has come from God. If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.

—We have in our churches a great deal of prayer, but I think it would be a good thing if we had a praise meeting occasionally. If we could only get people to praise God for what He has done, it would be a good deal better than asking Him continually for something.

PRAYER.

—All should work and ask God’s guidance. —The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer. —Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

—Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.

—David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.

—Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

—The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

SAVED.

—I would rather go into the kingdom of heaven through the poor house than go down to hell in a golden chariot.

—I believe there are more young men who come to Boston who are lost because they cannot say no, than for any other reason.

—It ain’t necessary to leave the things of this life when you follow Him. It is not necessary to give up your business, if it’s a legitimate one, in order to accept Christ. , But you musn’t set your heart on the old nets by a good deal.

—A great many people want to bring their faith, their works, their good deeds to Him for salvation. Bring your sins, and He will bear them away into the wilderness of forgetfulness, and you will never see them again.

—Do you believe that He would send those men out to preach the gospel to every creature unless he wanted every creature to be saved? Do you believe He would tell them to preach it to people without giving people the power to accept it? Do you believe the God of heaven is mocking men by offering them his gospel and not giving them the power to take hold of it? Do you believe He will not give men power to accept this salvation as a gift? Man might do that, but God never mocks men. And when he says “Preach the gospel to every creature,” every creature can be saved if he will.

—Lift your eyes from off these puny Christians—from off these human ministers, and look to Christ. He is the Saviour of the world. He came from the throne to this earth: He came from the very bosom of the Father. God gave Him up freely for us, and all we have to do is to accept him as our Saviour. Look at Him at Gethsemane, sweating as it were great drops of blood; look at Him on the cross, crucified between two thieves; hear that piercing cry, “Father, Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.” And as you look into that face, as you look into those wounds on His feet or His hands, will you say He has not the power to save you? Will you say He has not the power to redeem you?