Smith Wigglesworth famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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God's Word never fails. He will always heal you if you dare to believe Him. Men are searching everywhere today for things with which they can heal themselves, and they ignore the fact that the Balm of Gilead (Jeremiah 8:22) is within easy reach.
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The power of God will take you out of your own plans and put you into the plan of God.
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God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so, but as for me, I will not.
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Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.
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You must every day make higher ground. You must deny yourself to make progress with God. You must refuse every- thing that is not pure and holy. God wants you pure in heart. He wants you to have an intense desire after holiness... Two things will get you to leap out of yourselves into the promises of God today. One is purity, and the other is FAITH, which is kindled more and more BY PURITY.
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The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is that Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with attending meetings weekly, reading the Bible occasionally, and praying sometimes. It is an awful thing for me to see people who profess to be Christians lifeless, powerless, and in a place where their lives are so parallel to unbelievers’ lives that it is difficult to tell which place they are in, whether in the flesh or in the Spirit.
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Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.
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The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.
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A prayer without faith is without accomplishment
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Voice your position in God and you will be surrounded by all the resources of God in the time of trial.
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The trouble is that we do not have the power of God in a full manifestation because of our finite thoughts, but as we go on and let God have His way, there is no limit to what our limitless God will do in response to a limitless faith. But you will never get anywhere except you are in constant pursuit of all the power of God.
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You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.
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Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.
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A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.
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The living Word is able to destroy Satanic forces.
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I want you to promise the Lord that, from tonight, you will not think back, look back, or act back!
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The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.
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Great faith is the product of great fights.
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Dare to believe, and then dare to speak, and you shall have whatsoever you say if you doubt not.
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God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.
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God wants to purify our minds until we can bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things. God dwells in you, but you cannot have this divine power until you live and walk in the Holy Ghost, until the power of the new life is greater than the old life.
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By the grace of God I want to impart the Word, and bring you into a place where you will dare to act upon the plan of the Word, to so breathe life by the power of the Word that it is impossible for you to go on under any circumstances without his provision. The most difficult things that come to us are to our advantage from God's side. When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.
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There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you
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If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.
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To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy
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There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.
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Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.
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God's canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil.
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Wherever the Holy Ghost has right of way, the gifts of the Spirit will be in manifestation; and where these gifts are never in manifestation, I question whether He is present.
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There is nothing that our God cannot do. He will do everything if you will dare to believe.
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I am never happier in the Lord than when I am in a bedroom with a sick person.
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One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.
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If the spirit does not move me, I move the Spirit.
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God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.
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When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.
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To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.
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I am satisfied with the dissatisfaction that never rests until it is satisfied and satisfied again.
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There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.
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It is better to live ready than to get ready!
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There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you.
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How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.
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I can't understand God by feelings. I can't understand the Lord Jesus Christ by feelings. I can only understand God the Father and Jesus Christ by what the Word says about them. God is everything the Word says He is. We need to get acquainted with Him through the Word.
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Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.
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When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.
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There are two kinds of faith. There is the natural faith. But the supernatural faith is the gift of God.
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God longs intensively for unhindered communication and total response between him and the believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit
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If you are in the same place today as you were yesterday, you are a backslider.
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Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object. If I leave you as I found you, I am not God's channel. I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you can laugh at the impossible.
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You must be yielded to the Word of God. The Word will work out love in our hearts, and when practical love is in our hearts, there is no room to boast about ourselves. We see ourselves as nothing when we get lost in this divine love.
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I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary.
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There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives.
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I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night.
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There was never one who came into the world with such loving compassion and who entered into all the needs of the people as did the Lord Jesus. And he declares to us, 'Verily, verily, I say unto you he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my father.' [Jn 14.12] God wants us all to have an audacity of faith that dares to believe for all that is set forth in the word.
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We must be careful not to choose, but to let God's Holy Spirit manage our lives; not to smooth down and explain away, but to stir up the gift and allow God's Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God's mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.
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Two things will get you to leap out of yourselves into the promises of God today. One is purity, and the other is FAITH, which is kindled more and more BY PURITY.
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When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in operation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin, death, disease, or whatever it is. I can pray in the Holy Ghost, and that prayer is effectual to bring down every stronghold of the enemy.
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The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory.
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In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.
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To the man of faith, there is not a thing that is not opportunity.
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People could be built far greater in the Lord and be more wonderfully established if they would move out sometimes and think over the graces of the Lord.
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Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him.
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If I read the newspaper I come out dirtier than I went in. If I read my Bible, I come out cleaner than I went in, and I like being clean!
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I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.
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I'd rather die believing than live doubting
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Nothing in the world glorifies God so much as simple rest of faith in what God’s Word says.
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The Word of God will bring you into a wonderful place of rest in faith.
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Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Ghost, get down and pray for power.
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Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.
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Perfect love will never want the preeminence in everything, it will never want to take the place of another, it will always be willing to take the back seat.
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There are boundless possibilities for us if we dare to act in God and dare to believe!
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God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.
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It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.
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God has chosen us to help one another.
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God does not call those who are equipped, He equips those whom He has called.
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The devil will endeavor to fascinate through the eyes and through the mind.
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Without faith, you have nothing. You cannot be saved without it. You cannot be healed without it.
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Desire God, and you will have desires from God.
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Great triumphs can only come out of great trials
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Whatever God has done for other men, He can do for me.
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There is nothing small about our God, and when we understand God we will find out that there ought not to be anything small about us. We must have an enlargement of our conception of God, then we will know that we have come to a place where all things are possible, for our God is an omnipotent God for impossible positions.
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I'm a thousand times bigger on the inside than I am on the outside.
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Live in the Acts of the Apostles, and every day you will see some miracle worked by the power of the living God.
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All things are possible, only believe.
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The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness.
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Power from on high . . . It is God inserting into you divine activity with mightiness.
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The man who is going through with God to be used in healing must be a man of longsuffering.
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It pays to trust God with all and to make no reservation.
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Those who carry the vessels of the Lord must be clean, must be holy (Isa. 52:11).
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I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true that He does.... There is something about believing in God, that makes God willing to pass over a million people just to anoint you. I believe God will always turn out to meet you on a special line if you dare to believe Him.
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The Spirit reveals, unfolds, takes of the things of Christ and shows them to us, and prepares us to be more than a match for Satanic forces.
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If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to be received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comes by action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faith to faith.
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Pentecost came with the sound of a mighty rushing wind, a violent blast from heaven! Heaven has not exhausted its blasts, but our danger is we are getting frightened of them.
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When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield.
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God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown.
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I find nothing in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness. Therefore, if I live in the world, I will become worldly; on the other hand, if I live in the Bible, I will become holy.
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There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing and that is longsuffering.
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I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved by what I believe.
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God is more eager to answer than we are to ask.
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Read the Word. Consume the Word until it consumes you. Believe the Word. Act on the Word.
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How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!
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