David Wilkerson Quotes

When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you to succeed, He’s calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you.

A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance.

Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place.

Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set His heart on you, to show you His love and care.

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.

I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought.

Christ does not inhabit buildings or a certain atmosphere; in fact, the very heavens cannot contain Him. Rather, He is manifested through our obedient, sanctified bodies-His temples.

True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful condition. Rather, it is meant to reveal God's faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation.

Faith comes by hearing all the Word, not just preferred sections.

At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.

We simply can't trust God's power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis.

Beloved, God has never failed to act but in goodness and love. When all means fail-his love prevails. Hold fast to your faith. Stand fast in his Word. There is no other hope in this world.

The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.

You see, growing in grace doesn't mean doing more or greater things for God. True growth comes in doing the same things over and over, with more heart assurance that we're doing everything for Him.

God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!

The cry for peace will increase according to scripture.

To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.

You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.

As far as the Lord is concerned, the time to stand is in the darkest moment. It is when everything seems hopeless, when there appears no way out, when God alone can deliver.

The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.

The prophet Zechariah warns that any nation that touches Jerusalem will be cut off.

We are blood-secured, delivered from the enemy’s power, and raised up into newness of life in God.

A watered down gospel is no gospel at all

In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.

Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.

God's covenant with the church and Israel is unbreakable.

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

We want his power more than his purity.

The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.

Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

We humans can work hard for each other, and we should and we must work. But it is God, and only God, who heals.

My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.

The young people are hungry for God.

God does sometimes change our trying circumstances. But more often, He doesn't - because He wants to change us.

I believe in walking in the Spirit.

America is a giving nation and very compassionate.

The UK is becoming a pagan nation along with most European nations.

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.