Smith Wigglesworth Quotes
by
Smith Wigglesworth
1)
"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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2) "Can demons remain in your presence? You have to be
greater than
demons. Can disease lodge in the body that you touch?
You have to be greater than the
disease." 1 Jn. 4:4
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3) "Were you saved before you believed or after? After
he answered. You
will be healed after."
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4) "Faith is an act." Wigglesworth stormed heaven into
God's presence to
draw stronger faith for the task before him. Example:
demon possessed woman who
slept 14 years and awoke delivered.
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5) "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!" He was, as Wesley said,
"a man of one book."
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6) "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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7) "Some people like to read their Bibles in the
Hebrew; some like to read
it in the Greek; I like to ready it in the Holy
Spirit."
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8) "Great faith is the product of great fights."
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9) "Repeat in your heart often"baptized with the Holy
Ghost and fire, fire,
fire!" All the unction, and weeping, and travailing
comes through the baptism of fire, and
I say to you and say to myself, purged and cleansed
and filled with renewed spiritual
power." "Who maketh his ministers a flame of fire."
Heb. 1:7.
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10) "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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11) "Wigglesworth knew a place in God where nothing
disturbed him.
He could say with Paul, none of these things move me."
(Acts 20:24).
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12) "Lord, give us, Thy servants, great searchings of
heart, great
decisions of will, and great assurances through the
blood of Jesus. Amen."
13)
"Wigglesworth, like Charles Finney, believed that the presence of a man
filled with God could bring conviction to sinners
without even a word being spoken. As
he sat opposite a man in a railway carriage, the man
suddenly jumped up, exclaimed,
'You convict me of sin!' and went out into another
carriage."
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14) "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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15) "How the outlook changes when Jesus comes!"
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16) "You will have to voice many things in order to
bring them into
being."
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17) "God will come to the one who cries first."
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18) "I want to help you decide that, by the power of
God, you will not be
ordinary."
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19) "If you are in the same place today as you were
yesterday, you are
a backslider."
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20) "Power from on high . . . It is God inserting into
you divine activity with
mightiness."
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21) "I am always on my merit. Every time I preach, I
preach my best.
Every time I pray, I pray my best."
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22) "To the man of faith, there is not a thing that is
not opportunity."
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23) "I am all Pentecost."
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24) "The baptism of the Holy Ghost has brought us to
the fact of a
remarkable personality dwelling within us which is all
faith."
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25) "God's word lives!"
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26) "Without faith, you have nothing. You cannot be
saved without it. You
cannot be healed without it."
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27) "Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know
there is nothing
binding him."
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28) "Faith is such a divine establishment of courage
in you that courage
sweeps you through every condition: You cannot come
into the divine order, except
on the line of being soaked in the word of God."
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29) "Purity is vital to faith."
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30) "If you want to increase in the life of God, then
you must settle it in
your heart that you will not at any time resist the
Holy Spirit. The Holy Ghost and fire
- the fire burning up everything that would impoverish
and destroy you."
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31) "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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32) "Shout, 'Get thee behind me, Satan,,,' and you
will have the best time on
earth. Whisper it, and you won't."
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33) "We miss the grandeur because we lack audacity. If
you will voice
God at any time, you will find that He will be greater
than any power that is round
about you."
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34) "On reading Romans 8, 'you will be sin-proof and
devil proof'."
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35) "I don't ever ask Smith Wigglesworth how he
feels!" I jump out of
bed! I dance before the Lord for at least 10 to 12
minutes - high speed dancing. I
jump up and down and run around my room telling God
how great he is, how
wonderful He is, how glad I am to be associated with
Him and to be His child."
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36) "Everything has to be changed by us through faith,
weariness with
rest, weakness with strength."
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37) "You have divine personality, but you will know
the mightiness of its
workings only as you venture. You cannot be with me at
anytime, anywhere, but I
am after God."
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38) "I am on the plan of daring, acting in the Holy
Ghost."
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39) "God's plan for you is to forget the past in every
way, because the future
is so amazingly wonderful. Oh, the word of God is so
wonderful! The word so eats me
up that I have no place but in God's word."
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40) "Everyone in this place who is saved has a million
times more than
they know."
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41) "I want you to promise the Lord that, from
tonight, you will not think
back, look back, or act back!"
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42) "God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost
activity."
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43) "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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44) Is salvation and healing for all? It is for all
who will press in and get their
portion. The word can drive every disease away from
your body. It is your portion in
Christ, Him who is our bread, our life, our health,
our all in all."
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45) "Dare you, dare you spurn this glorious Gospel of
God for spirit, soul and
body? . . . This Gospel that brings liberty, this
Gospel that brings souls out of bondage,
this Gospel that brings perfect health to the body,
this Gospel of entire salvation."
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46) "Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy
Ghost." Acts. 6:5.
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47) "Polly, (Wigglesworth's wife) said "If we've got
what they (apostles)
got, then we can do what they did."
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48) "Far too many of us dwell on the lowlands of
salvation. Can't you
hear voices calling you to the uplands of divine
grace? Mountain climbing is
thrilling! Let's be off! Hebron's heights rise before
us. Shall we explore our
unclaimed inheritance in the heavenlies?"
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49) "If you leave people as you found them, God is not
speaking by you.
If you are not making people mad or glad, there is
something amiss with your
ministry. If there is not a war on, it's a bad job for
you."
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50) "If the spirit does not move me, I move the
Spirit."
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51) I am not moved by what I see or feel but by what I
believe.
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52) "No wavering. This is the principle: He who
believes is definite. A
definite faith brings a definite experience and a
definite utterance."
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53) "Men can grow lopsided by emphasizing the truth of
divine healing.
Men can get wrong by all the time preaching on water
baptism. But we never go
wrong in exalting the Lord Jesus Christ, giving Him
the preeminent place and
magnifying Him as both Lord and Christ, yes, as very
God of very God. As we are
filled with the Holy Spirit our one desire is to
magnify Him. We need to be filled with
the Spirit to get the full revelation of the Lord
Jesus Christ."
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Bonus Quotes - by others
Mario Murrillo: "We have been deluded into believing that there are two kinds
of war, physical and spiritual, but there is only war
. . . . Lucifer has bewitched Christians
into accepting a subtle lie that has huge
consequences. We say the Christian life is like
a war. It sounds innocent, but it casts a disastrous
symbolism to something that is
desperately real. If we are in something like a war,
then the bible becomes something
like the word of God, and we face something like an
attack, and we put on something like
the armor of God. . . . Our methods and traditions
have helped the devil create an entire
generation that is informed but not transformed."
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John G. Lake: "Christianity did not come to the world
to apologize for its
existence or to beg a place to live. It came as
heaven's champion: it has the champion
soul. "It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise
his heel." (Gen. 3:15). That
champion consciousness is in the soul of the
Christian. Being born of God, he is
champion of the son of God and a demonstration His
salvation. He is the champion of
God. He cannot be anything else. 'As he is so are we
in this world.' (1Jn. 4:17). . . . I
fear sometimes that we moderns somehow have lost the
spirit of original Christianity. We
have lost the overcoming of it. We have lost the smash
of it. We are begging the devil
for a place in the world, apologizing for our faith in
God, trying to conform our religion to
the mind of the world."
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A. W. Tozer: "Every man is as full of the Holy Spirit
as he wants to be. He may
not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most
certainly as full as he wants to be."
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China Missionary Arthur Matthews: "We are only as
victorious as we want to
be. Lack of inner victory cannot be blamed on anyone
but ourselves. Each man has his
own measuring cup and measures out the quantity of
victory he desires. Beyond that,
for some perverse reason, we will not stretch
ourselves. Today, the message of victory
is being misrepresented, cheapened, and diluted by
Christians who are content with
lowered standards and limited victory because in their
hearts, they do not really want
victory.