Moody's quotations

If a Sabbath School Teacher does not love his scholars - if he goes to them as if it was a lesson he wished to get over, it will not be long before they find it out. They will see it in his eyes, in his face, in his actions. And so let us see the necessity of having the love of God in our hearts.

If you go from a sense of duty, you will make no progress with them, but if you go to them and talk of the love of Christ, and show kindness in your actions, they will hear you.

A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.

The world wants sympathy about as much as anything. There are so many we could reach if we could sympathise with them. If we stand upon a higher plane, we won't succeed. The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that he might sympathise with the lowly. If we want to reach people, we have got to put ourselves in the places of those people, if we are going to succeed.

The churches would soon be filled if outsiders could find that people in them loved them when they came, and if the elders and deacons were glad to see them and were ready to take them by the hand and welcome them. Such things would draw sinners. Actions like these speak louder than words. We do not want to talk of love and not show it in our deeds; we want something more than "Tongue Love".

- D. L. Moody