Smith Wigglesworth Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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. — Smith Wigglesworth

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. — Smith Wigglesworth

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Smith Wigglesworth

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

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

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

All things are possible, only believe. — Smith Wigglesworth

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! — Smith Wigglesworth

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

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

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

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. — 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

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. — Smith Wigglesworth

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

The devil will endeavor to fascinate through the eyes and through the mind. — Smith Wigglesworth

A prayer without faith is without accomplishment — Smith Wigglesworth

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

It is one to say you have faith and another to be in a tight corner and prove it. — Smith Wigglesworth

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

The living Word is able to destroy Satanic forces. — Smith Wigglesworth

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. — 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

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

I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe. I know this-no man looks at appearances if he believes. No man considers how he feels if he believes. The man who believes God has it. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Smith Wigglesworth

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

Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost. — Smith Wigglesworth

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

If the spirit does not move me, I move the Spirit. — Smith Wigglesworth

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

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. — Smith Wigglesworth

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

Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing
binding him. — Smith Wigglesworth

Dare to believe, and then dare to speak, and you shall have whatsoever you say if you doubt not. — 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

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

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. — Smith Wigglesworth

The heart is the mainspring. — 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

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

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

It pays to trust God with all and to make no reservation. — Smith Wigglesworth

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

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. — 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 has chosen us to help one another. — Smith Wigglesworth

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

One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat. — 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

I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night. — 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 devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you. — Smith Wigglesworth

The power of God will take you out of your own plans and put you into the plan of God. — Smith Wigglesworth

Desire God, and you will have desires from God. — Smith Wigglesworth

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. — 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

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

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

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

I am never happier in the Lord than when I am in a bedroom with a sick person. — Smith Wigglesworth

Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Ghost, get down and pray for power. — 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

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. — 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

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

I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved by what I believe. — Smith Wigglesworth

God is more eager to answer than we are to ask. — 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

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

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

I am satisfied with the dissatisfaction that never rests until it is satisfied and satisfied again. — Smith Wigglesworth

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

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

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