"Throughout, Moody portrayed Christ himself as a sinner"

"did you ever know a man to keep the law except the Son of God himself?"

"Christ kept the law.  He was the Lamb, pure and spotless.  He never broke the law, therefore He can die for the sins of man."

     Dwight L. Moody, "Man’s great failure," in Glad tidings (New York:  E. B. Treat, 1876)), 411, 416.  I mount this in support of Alan Jacobs on James Walvin, Amazing grace:  a cultural history of the beloved hymn (University of California Press, 2023), "Beyond belief," The homebound symphony:  stagger on rejoicing, November 2, 2023.

"I must die for my sins or find some substitute to die in my stead.  I cannot get this man or that man to die for me, because they have sinned themselves, and would have to die for their own sins.  But Christ was without sin, and therefore He could be my substitute."

     Dwight L. Moody at Calvary's cross:  a symposium on the atonement (1900), 26, as quoted by James F. Findlay, Jr. at Dwight L. Moody:  American evangelist, 1837-1899 (Chicago:  The University of Chicago Press, 1969), 231-232 (where p. 31 in Calvary's cross is given as well).

"You may find a good many flaws in your character, but you can not find a flaw in the Lamb of God."

"And here we find the first glimpse of the doctrine of substitution—the substitution of the just for the unjust—the great doctrine of atonement and substitution foreshadowed in Genesis."

"'So loved the world;' that includes them; if they inhabited some other land they might tremble, but they are in this earth, for all the sons and daughters of which Christ died, the just for the unjust."

     Dwight L. Moody, New sermons, addresses, and prayers (Chicago:  J.W. Goodspeed, 1877), 151 and 147 ("Tracing the scarlet thread"), 382 ("Best methods with inquirers").  See also p. 276 for a direct quotation of 1 Pet 3:18.

Etc.!