Smith Wigglesworth was a British evangelist who was influential in the early history of Pentecostalism. Ministering at many churches throughout Yorkshire, often at Bethesda Church at Swallownest, Wigglesworth claimed to have made many prophecies. He also had an international ministry. He ministered in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, the Pacific Islands, India, Ceylon, and several countries in Europe. These Smith Wigglesworth quotes will motivate you.
Best Smith Wigglesworth Quotes
- “If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
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“To the man of faith, there is not a thing that is not opportunity.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
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“God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth, Smith Wigglesworth quotes on faith
- “The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “God does not call those who are equipped, He equips those whom He has called.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth, Smith Wigglesworth quotes on prayer
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“Desire God, and you will have desires from God.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “Without faith, you have nothing. You cannot be saved without it. You cannot be healed without it.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
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“God is more eager to answer than we are to ask.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth, Smith Wigglesworth quotes on healing
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
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“Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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!” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
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“The power of God will take you out of your own plans and put you into the plan of God.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
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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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
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“I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth, Smith Wigglesworth quotes on life
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
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“Read the Word. Consume the Word until it consumes you. Believe the Word. Act on the Word.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth, Smith Wigglesworth quotes on Jesus
- “I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
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“If you are in the same place today as you were yesterday, you are a backslider.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “It is one to say you have faith and another to be in a tight corner and prove it.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “You have to bring your mind to the Word of God and not try to bring the Word of God to your mind.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
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“It is better to live ready than to get ready!” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
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“I’d rather die believing than live doubting” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “Nothing in the world glorifies God so much as simple rest of faith in what God’s Word says.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “Dare to believe, and then dare to speak, and you shall have whatsoever you say if you doubt not.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “I want you to promise the Lord that, from tonight, you will not think
back, look back, or act back!” ~ Smith Wigglesworth -
“There is nothing that our God cannot do. He will do everything if you will dare to believe.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Spirit. Get down and pray for power.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “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.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth, Smith Wigglesworth quotes on love
- “When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “Voice your position in God and you will be surrounded by all the
resources of God in the time of trial.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
