I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

Moody’s line frames biblical “inspiration” less as a technical doctrine to be proven by scholarship and more as an experiential reality verified in the believer’s life. The wordplay—“inspired because it inspires me”—shifts the argument from external evidences (authorship, manuscripts, miracles) to inward transformation: the Bible’s authority is felt in its power to awaken faith, conscience, hope, and moral resolve. As a revivalist, Moody often emphasized practical religion and personal conversion over abstract debate; the saying encapsulates that pastoral stance. It also illustrates a common evangelical epistemology: spiritual truths are confirmed by their fruits in experience, not only by rational demonstration.