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Smith Wigglesworth Quotes
Explore what the English Pentecostal evangelist taught about faith, prayer, the Holy Spirit, and the Word of God. Find a short quote to share or read a teaching alongside Scripture.
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It is possible to read the Word and not share in the life it brings.Smith Wigglesworth
It is better to live ready than to get ready!Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Every new revelation brings a new dedication. Let us seek Him.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
If you are living in the earth realm and expect things from Heaven, they will never come.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Give attention to life’s inflow; outward service will dwindle if inward energies are not renewed.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
You can lose more in ten minutes than you have gained in a whole year in the Assembly.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I am always on my merit. Every time I preach, I preach my best. Every time I pray, I pray my best.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
We must be emptied of self and filled with God.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The devil knows if he can capture your thought life, he has won a mighty victory over you.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The power of God will take you out of your own plans and put you into the plan of God.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
In me is working a power stronger than any other power.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Before God could bring me to this place, He has broken me a thousand times.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Beloved, let me entreat you to pay any price. Never mind what it costs; it is worth all to have His smile, to have His presence.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Will you let Him have your will; will you let Him have you? If you will, all His power is at your disposal.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy.Attributed to 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.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
We can only receive power as a gift, through yielding and obeying.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I don't ask myself how I feel — I tell myself how I feel.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
No matter what troubles you, God can shake the devil out and completely transform you. There is none like Him.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Increase comes by action, by using what we have and what we know.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
It pays to trust God with all and to make no reservation.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
If you examine yourself, you will be natural, but if you look at God, you will be supernatural.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I refuse to be an ordinary man. You say, why do you? Because I have an extraordinary God who makes extraordinary people.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I am satisfied with the dissatisfaction that never rests until it is satisfied and satisfied again.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God’s will shall be done, provided your will is not in the way.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
If you are in the same place as you were yesterday, you are a backslider.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I am not moved by what I see or feel but by what I believe.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God would pass over a million people just to find someone who believes Him.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Unbelief can be very blind, but faith can see through a stone wall.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Inactivity of faith is a robber, which steals blessing.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
It will never do to give way to human opinions. If God says a thing, you are to believe it.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Faith is made in hard places when we are at wit’s-end corner, and there seems no way out of our adversity.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There is what seems like faith, and appearance of faith, but real faith believes God right to the end.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
As we remain steadfast and unmovable on the ground of faith, we shall see what we believe for in perfect manifestation.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
All lack of faith is due to not feeding on God's Word.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I believe that there is only one way to all the treasures of God, and that is the way of faith.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There are two things essential; first, love, and second, determination, a boldness of faith that will cause God to fulfill His word.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Let us move into the realm of faith, and live in the realm of faith, and let God have His way.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The end of all real faith always is rejoicing.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There is no limit to what our limitless God will do in response to a limitless faith.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I believe God will always turn out to meet you on a special line if you dare to believe Him.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Ask for what you want; believe, receive from God, and thank God for it.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
It is one thing to say you have faith, and another thing to be in a tight corner and prove it.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God wants us all to have an audacity of faith that dares to believe for all that is set forth in the Word.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There are two kinds of faith. There is the natural faith. But the supernatural faith is the gift of God.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Nothing in the world glorifies God so much as simple rest of faith in what God’s Word says.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
A prayer without faith is without accomplishment.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The faith of Christ never wavers. When you have that faith, the thing, what you need is finished.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I long to be in a great revival that will eclipse anything we have ever thought of. I have faith to believe it is coming.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Being hard-hearted, critical or unforgiving will hinder faith quicker than anything.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God wants to give you a faith that shakes hell!Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
To the man of Faith there is not a thing that is not opportunity.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
It is like receiving a gift; you don’t know that you have it till you act in faith.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Faith is better than feelings, and if you have faith, you will have all the feelings you can feel.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Your life must be one of going from Faith to Faith.Attributed to 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.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
No wavering. This is the principle: He who believes is definite. A definite faith brings a definite experience and a definite utterance.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Real faith built the ark, but real faith did not shut the door. God did that. He does what you cannot do.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There is nothing that our God cannot do. He will do everything if you will dare to believe.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There is no such thing as the Lord not meeting your need. All things are possible to him that believeth.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Dare to believe, and then dare to speak, and you shall have whatsoever you say if you doubt not.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There are boundless possibilities for us if we dare to act in God and dare to believe!Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There are many who call themselves believers who are extremely unbelieving.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I saw that God wants us so badly that He has made the condition as simple as He possibly could—Only Believe.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The blood of Jesus Christ and His mighty Name are an antidote to all the subtle seeds of unbelief that satan would sow in your minds.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
When the gift of Faith is in operation, you know ahead of time what the Holy Spirit is going to do.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Prayer is without accomplishment unless it is accompanied by faith.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Believers were designed to operate in what is called: the law of faith.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I believe that all lack of faith is due to not feeding, drinking, thinking, speaking, and singing God’s Word!Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
To the man of faith, everything that is contrary to the will and the Word of God is nothing but an opportunity to prove that God is true.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Faith never fears — faith thrives in the greatest conflict — faith moves even things that cannot be moved.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I'll only pray for you once — to pray twice is unbelief.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing, and that is longsuffering.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I am never happier in the Lord than when I am in a bedroom with a sick person.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I would rather have the Spirit of God on me for five minutes than to receive a million dollars.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I’d rather have the anointing of God for 10 minutes than to own the whole world with a fence round it.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
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.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I refuse to use a gift unless the Holy Ghost manifests His power to bring the gift through.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
If the Spirit does not move me, I move the Holy Spirit.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
A man filled with the Holy Spirit is no longer an ordinary man.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
You don’t tarry for the Holy Ghost. He has already been given; He is here. You don’t tarry; you receive.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The Holy Spirit is not a manifestation of carnality.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
If you deal in the flesh after you are baptized in the Holy Spirit, you cease to go on.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
When the Holy Spirit comes into your body, He comes to unveil the King, to assure you of His presence.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Spirit. Get down and pray for power.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God longs intensively for unhindered communication and total response between Him and the believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The Holy Spirit takes it for granted that you are finished with all the things of the old, like when you become a new creation in Christ.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God wants his people ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I am on the plan of daring, acting in the Holy Ghost.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Some like to read the Bible in the Hebrew. Some in the Greek. I like to read it in the Holy Ghost.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
When you receive the Holy Ghost, you receive God's Gift, in whom are all the gifts of the Spirit.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The secret for the future is living and moving in the power of the Holy Ghost.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Ghost — get down and pray for power.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
It is an insult to ask God for power after you have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You have power! You have to ACT!Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
These times of waiting on God for the fullness of the Spirit are times when He searches the heart and tests the mind.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Be filled to overflowing with the Spirit. We are no good if we have only a full cup; we need to have an overflowing cup!Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
We must move away from everything that pertains to the letter. All that we do must be done under the anointing of the Spirit.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There is something about believing in God that makes God willing to pass over a million people just to anoint you.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
When I catch the first breath of the Spirit, I leave everything and everybody to be in His presence, to hear what He has to say to me.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; the second is that the Spirit possesses you.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The Lord will allow you to be very drunk in His presence, but sober among people.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
If you want to know the mind of God, you must have the Holy Ghost to bring God's latest thought to you and to tell you what to do.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
When the power of the Holy Ghost is present, things will happen.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you will laugh at the impossible.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Laughter in the Holy Ghost brings you out of everything!Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God wants to impart to us a faith that can laugh at impossibilities and rest in peace.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Faith, when it is moved by the power of God, can laugh when there is trouble.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
If I leave you as I found you, I am not God’s channel.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God can work mightily when you persist in believing Him in spite of discouragements from the human standpoint.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God does not call those who are equipped — He equips those whom He has called.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Oh, if God had His way, we would be like torches, purifying the very atmosphere wherever we go, moving back the forces of wickedness.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Oh, the name of Jesus! There is power in that Name to meet every condition of human need.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God wants manifestation, and He wants His glory to be seen. You are going to miss a great deal if you don’t begin to act.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The man who wants to work the works of God must never look at conditions but at Jesus.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
A preacher must not tell his audiences what he thinks but what he knows and let them do the thinking.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The power of God is just the same today as it was in the past.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God is here this morning in power, in blessing, and saying to you, what is your request? Oh, He is so precious! He never fails.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Power from on high. It is God inserting into you Divine activity with mightiness.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Everyone in this place who is saved has a million times more than they know.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Everyday I exercise myself in faith and authority.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.Attributed to 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.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Whatever God has done for other men, He can do for me.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The moment a man falls into sin, Divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There is power to overcome everything in the world through the Name of Jesus.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The lack today is the lack of understanding of that blessed fullness of Christ.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
My Heavenly bank, my Heavenly bank, the house of God's treasure and store. I have plenty in here; I'm a real millionaire.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
So, I have an extravagant God with extravagant language to make me an extravagant person-in wisdom.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
It is when you get out of the will of God that you have a hard time.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
You must come to see how wonderful you are in God, and how helpless you are in yourself.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Every stumbling block must become a steppingstone, and every opposition must become an opportunity.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
O God, give us such a holy, intense, Divine acquaintance that we would rather die than grieve Thee!Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
No man can doubt if he will learn to shout.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
We must expect Him to come forth in power through us for the deliverance of others.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Since I received the mighty Baptism in the Holy Spirit, God has flooded my life with His power.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
If you ask God seven times for the same thing, six times are in unbelief.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God is more eager to answer than we are to ask.Attributed to 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.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
You will have to voice many things in order to bring them into being.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Voice your position in God, and you will be surrounded by all the resources of God in the time of trial.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Those who carry the vessels of the Lord must be clean, must be holy.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
We are saved, called with a holy calling-called to be saints, holy, pure, God-like, sons with power.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God wants us to let the mind that was in Christ Jesus, that pure, holy, humble mind of Christ, be in us.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Do not rest satisfied with any lesser experience than the baptism that the disciples received on the Day of Pentecost.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
When we are praying in the Holy Ghost, faith is in evidence, and as a result, the power of God can be manifested in our midst.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
God has ordained this speaking in an unknown tongue unto Himself as a wonderful, supernatural means of communication in the Spirit.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
And He gives me language that I cannot speak fast enough; it comes too fast; and it is there because God has given it.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Shout, 'Get thee behind me, satan,' and you will have the best time on earth. Whisper it, and you won't.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
If you have a great God, you will have a little devil; and if you have a big devil, you will have a little God.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The devil will endeavor to fascinate through the eyes and through the mind.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Temptations will come to all. If you are not worth tempting, you are not worth much.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I made this promise to the Lord that I would never allow myself to doubt His Word.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
By the grace of God, I want to impart the Word and bring you to a place where you will dare to act on it.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
I want to impart the word to you to get you to a place where you will laugh at the impossible.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Let everything about you be a lie, but let this Word of God be true.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Have a Bible proof for all you have, and then you will be in a place where no man can move you.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
If a thing is in the Bible, then it is so; it is not even to be prayed about; it is to be received and acted upon.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
There is power in God’s Word to make that which does not exist appear.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The Word of God will bring you into a wonderful place of rest in faith.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The Word of God is eternal and cannot be broken. You cannot improve on the Word of God, for it is life, and it produces only life.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
This blessed Book brings such life and health and peace, and such abundance that we should never be poor anymore.Attributed to 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.Attributed to 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!Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
None of you can be strong in God unless you are diligently and constantly hearkening to what God has to say to you through His Word.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Libraries make swelled heads, but the Word of God makes enlarged hearts.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Fill your head and your heart with the Scriptures. As you do this, you are sowing in your heart seeds which the Spirit can germinate.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
Believers are strong only as the Word of God abides in them.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
It is absolutely infidelity and unbelief to pray about anything in the Word of God.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
The Word of God has not to be prayed about — the Word of God has to be received.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
If you will receive the Word of God, you will always be in a big place.Attributed to Smith Wigglesworth
From the archives · 1924
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Read excerpts from Ever Increasing Faith, then choose a topic to explore the longer teachings alongside Scripture.
- Have Faith in God
I know that God's word is sufficient.
- Have Faith in God
All things are possible if you will believe.
- Deliverance to the Captives
It is possible to read the Word and not share in the life it brings.
- The Gift of Prophecy
True prophetic utterance always exalts the Lamb of God.
- The Gift of Prophecy
Act in faith, and the Lord will meet you.
Artwork reference for the banner: portrait of Wigglesworth reading. Artwork reference for the quote cards: preaching photograph. The gallery labels sayings as attributed where the original source is still unconfirmed.
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