Daily Inspiration Quote by Dwight L. Moody

Moody’s line lands like a rebuke to modern cynicism: the problem isn’t that faith makes extravagant claims, it’s that we’ve trained ourselves to treat extravagance as fraud. “Too good to be true” is the language of scams and salesmen, and Moody flips it into a theological dare. If God is the speaker, the usual consumer protections don’t apply. The phrase borrows the streetwise suspicion of his audience and then disarms it, turning doubt into a category error.

The intent is pastoral but also strategic. Moody was an evangelist of the industrial age, preaching to people living through urban churn, boom-and-bust economics, and a rising marketplace of self-improvement and spiritual alternatives. In that world, “promises” were everywhere: ads, employers, politicians, revivalists. So he anchors Christian hope not in mood or morality, but in the character of the promiser. The subtext is simple and hard-edged: you can’t bargain with God the way you bargain with everyone else. If the promise seems implausibly generous (forgiveness, grace, eternal life), that’s not evidence against it; it’s evidence of who’s making it.

It also sneaks in an argument about authority. Moody isn’t debating doctrine; he’s closing the courtroom. God’s credibility is treated as settled fact, and the listener is pushed toward a decision rather than an analysis. The brilliance is how it makes skepticism feel small, even slightly embarrassing, without calling anyone stupid. In one sentence, doubt becomes less intellectual posture than wounded habit.