Quotes by 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.
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.
There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you
God does not call those who are equipped, He equips those whom He has called.
I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe.
Desire God, and you will have desires from God.
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.
To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.
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.
Read the Word. Consume the Word until it consumes you. Believe the Word. Act on the Word.
It is one to say you have faith and another to be in a tight corner and prove it.
Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.
A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.
The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.
If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.
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 is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.
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.