Quotes from Lester Sumrall

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

You are what you are because that is what you really want to be! We make decisions and those decisions make us who were are! You can judge anything in the world by this. God builds up and the Devil tears down.

I believe God wants to accomplish His work supernaturally on the face of the earth. He wants to take natural people and work supernaturally through them to bring about a mighty surge of His power, just the way He worked through Howard Carter. I challenge you to make yourself ready for Him to use you in this wonderful moment in which we live today.

In all the operations of faith recorded in the Bible, there are no failures. The three Hebrew children didn't come out of the fiery furnace scorched. Faith works. Faith succeeds. The Bible records no defeats related to faith.

the last great revival on Planet Earth, we need men like Richey, with deep courage, great faith and tender hearts. We need men like Richey who are able to rise up unselfishly and bless multitudes. We need people who will fling themselves wholeheartedly into every new move. We do not just need the "sons of the prophets" today. We need the prophets themselves!

Faith is walking with God. If you get up in the mornings angry and screaming at everybody, you are not demonstrating that you have a bad temper so much as you are demonstrating that you don't have faith. When you walk with God, you demonstrate His nature.

You say, "How can I increase my faith?" Know more about God. The secret of having more faith is to know more about God. Faith has a direct relationship with our knowledge of God.

People eulogize Smith Wigglesworth. They call him a prophet of faith. But what they don't know is he sat almost all day, every day, reading the Bible, praying, and ministering to people. If you had asked him to do something else, he would have thought you were crazy. His knowledge of God was tremendous.

Faith is the greatest power generated on the planet earth and is the number one source of unused energy.

When we have faith in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we can expect the miracle power of God to function.

Both faith and love flow from the heart of God. If you can get hold of both of them, you will have life upon this earth without limitations.

In Christ there is confidence. We relax in Him. We're not nervous. We're not saying, "Oh, is it going to happen?" That's not in the language. It's going to happen because it has always happened. In faith there is the element of confidence which brings relaxation in God. It's a matter of just leaning on Him.

Faith has no limitations. You are the only person who can limit faith in your life.

Faith is when God and man choose to walk together in life, to think together, and I'd even say, to laugh together. For the faith life is the happiest life. Faith has no relationship with idleness. It has to do with a man who gets out there and goes for God, and God goes for him.

Faith grows and develops in the same ways our physical bodies grow and develop—by eating good food and exercising properly. The food that faith thrives on is the Word of God (1 Peter 2:2; Romans 10:17), and the faith in our hearts is to be exercised through regular use.

I predict the absolute fullness of man's operation on planet Earth by the year 2000 A.D.