Quotes from Smith Wigglesworth

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.

Voice your position in God and you will be surrounded by all the resources of God in the time of trial.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is better to live ready than to get ready!

There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

One half of the trouble in the assemblies is the people's murmuring over the conditions they are in. The Bible teaches us not to murmur. If you reach that standard, you will never murmur anymore. You will be above murmuring. You will be in the place where God is absolutely the exchanger of thought, the exchanger of actions, and the exchanger of your inward purity. He will be purifying you all the time and lifting you higher, and you will know you are not of this world (John 15:19).

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.

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.

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