Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Smith Wigglesworth

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British evangelist Smith Wigglesworth.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Smith Wigglesworth

Smith Wigglesworth was a British evangelist who was influential in the early history of Pentecostalism.

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.
It is one to say you have faith and another to be in a tight corner and prove it.
I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe. — © Smith Wigglesworth
I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe.
Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.
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.
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.
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 devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself. — © Smith Wigglesworth
You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.
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.
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.
When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.
You have to bring your mind to the Word of God and not try to bring the Word of God to your mind.
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 you to promise the Lord that, from tonight, you will not think back, look back, or act back!
I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.
Read the Word. Consume the Word until it consumes you. Believe the Word. Act on the Word.
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.
God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.
A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.
There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you
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.
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.
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.
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.
Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.
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.
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.
If you are in the same place today as you were yesterday, you are a backslider.
The power of God will take you out of your own plans and put you into the plan 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.
I'd rather die believing than live doubting
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.
I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night. — © Smith Wigglesworth
I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night.
Desire God, and you will have desires from God.
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!
Dare to believe, and then dare to speak, and you shall have whatsoever you say if you doubt not.
One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.
Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Spirit. Get down and pray for power.
There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.
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.
Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.
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.
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.
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.
To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God. — © Smith Wigglesworth
To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.
When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield.
It is better to live ready than to get ready!
Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him.
God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.
Nothing in the world glorifies God so much as simple rest of faith in what God’s Word says.
If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.
God does not call those who are equipped, He equips those whom He has called.
Voice your position in God and you will be surrounded by all the resources of God in the time of trial.
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.
God is more eager to answer than we are to ask.
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