Quote#God & Faith
My friends, does God invite you? If He does, why don't you accept the…
Quote byDwight Lyman Moody · 1837–1899
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 245.
English (original)
My friends, does God invite you? If He does, why don't you accept the invitation? If you want to come, just come along, and don't be talking about feeling. Do you think Lazarus had any feeling when Christ called him out of the sepulchre?
— Dwight Lyman Moody
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