Smith Wigglesworth Quotes

There are boundless possibilities for us if we dare to act in God and dare to believe!

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.

Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.

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.

If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.

There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you

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.

To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy

A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.

Those who carry the vessels of the Lord must be clean, must be holy (Isa. 52:11).

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.

Whatever God has done for other men, He can do for me.

You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.

There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing and that is longsuffering.

Believe that when you come into the presence of God you can have all you came for. You can take it away, and you can use it, for all the power of God is at your disposal in response to your faith.

When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.

We must see the face of the Lord ... There are things that God says to me that I know must take place. It doesn't matter what people say. I have been face to face with some of the most trying moments of men's lives when it meant so much to me if I kept the vision, and if I held fast to that which God had said. A man must be in an immovable condition. The voice of God must mean to him more than what he sees, feels, or what people say.

The man who is going through with God to be used in healing must be a man of longsuffering.

God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.

I'd rather die believing than live doubting

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.

Desire toward God and you will have desires from God and He will meet you on the line of those desires when you reach out in simple faith.

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.

God longs intensively for unhindered communication and total response between him and the believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit

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.

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.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

Live in the Acts of the Apostles, and every day you will see some miracle worked by the power of the living God.

There are two kinds of faith. There is the natural faith. But the supernatural faith is the gift of God.

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.

I'm a thousand times bigger on the inside than I am on the outside.

The living Word is able to destroy Satanic forces.

God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.

I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.

There is a great destructive force that comes upon us when we start comparing ourselves in the flesh with what we could be spiritually. We should never compare what we are with what we could be, because we will always be down on ourselves when we do this. Just look to Jesus and what He is. As long as we look to Jesus we will go toward Him. When we look at our inferiority we will go toward it.

If you are in the same place today as you were yesterday, you are a backslider.

Read the Word. Consume the Word until it consumes you. Believe the Word. Act on the Word.

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.

The Word of God will bring you into a wonderful place of rest in faith.

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.

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.

Voice your position in God and you will be surrounded by all the
resources of God in the time of trial.

God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.

God has chosen us to help one another.

Nothing in the world glorifies God so much as simple rest of faith in what God's Word says.

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.

You have to bring your mind to the Word of God and not try to bring the Word of God to your mind.

I want you to promise the Lord that, from tonight, you will not think
back, look back, or act back!

Power from on high ... It is God inserting into you divine activity with
mightiness.

There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.

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.

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.

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.

I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be
ordinary.

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.

God does not call those who are equipped, He equips those whom He has called.

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.

The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness.

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.

The Bible is the Word of God: supernatural in origin, eternal in duration, inexpressible in valor, infinite in scope, regenerative in power, infallible in authority, universal in interest, personal in application, inspired in totality. Read it through, write it down, pray it in, work it out, and then pass it on. Truly it is the Word of God. It brings into man the personality of God; it changes the man until he becomes the epistle of God. It transforms his mind, changes his character, takes him on from grace to grace, and gives him an inheritance in the Spirit. God comes in, dwells in, walks in, talks through, and sups with him.

I believe that God wants to put His hand upon us so that we may reach ideal definitions of humility, of human helplessness, of human insufficiency, until we will rest no more upon human plans, but have God's thoughts, God's voice, and the Holy Spirit to speak to us.

It is better to live ready than to get ready!

I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved by what I believe.

There is nothing that our God cannot do. He will do everything if you will dare to believe.

The plan of God for your life is that you should be held captive by His power, doing that which you in the natural world would never do, but that which you are forced to do by the power of the Holy Ghost moving through you.

Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.

There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives.

To the man of faith, there is not a thing that is not opportunity.

God's canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil.

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.