Top 70 David Wilkerson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”

— David Wilkerson

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

— David Wilkerson

3. “God uses people. God uses people to perform His work. He does not send angels. Angels weep over it, but God does not use angels to accomplish His purposes. He uses burdened broken-hearted weeping men and women.”

— David Wilkerson

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

— David Wilkerson

5. “A watered down gospel is no gospel at all.”

— David Wilkerson

6. “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.”

— David Wilkerson

7. “Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God’s Word that as He has anchored us in the past, so He will in the future.”

— David Wilkerson

8. “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.”

— David Wilkerson

9. “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.”

— David Wilkerson

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

— David Wilkerson

11. “Most Christians never associate joy with repentance. But repentance is actually the mother of all joy in Jesus. Without it, there can be no joy. Yet, any believer who walks in repentance will be flooded with the joy of the Lord.”

— David Wilkerson

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

— David Wilkerson

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

— David Wilkerson

14. “True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one’s life into the hands of the Lord.”

— David Wilkerson

15. “Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don’t want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they’re living just to die.”

— David Wilkerson

16. “Worshippers aren’t made when they see the enemy on the run, put to flight. The truth is, worshippers of God are made during dark, stormy nights. And how we respond to our storms determines just what kind of worshippers we are.”

— David Wilkerson

17. “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.”

— David Wilkerson

18. “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.”

— David Wilkerson

19. “After much prayer, careful study and reliance on the Holy Spirit, I have concluded this about Christ’s intercession for us. Jesus died on the cross to purchase peace with God for me – and He is in heaven now to maintain that peace, for me and in me.”

— David Wilkerson

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

— David Wilkerson

21. “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.”

— David Wilkerson

22. “Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.”

— David Wilkerson

23. “God does sometimes change our trying circumstances. But more often, He doesn’t – because He wants to change us.”

— David Wilkerson

24. “How can you know when you are trusting in man rather than in God? If you fall apart when someone else lets you down, or if the actions of others affect your walk with God, then you know you are leaning on the arm of flesh!”

— David Wilkerson

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

— David Wilkerson

26. “I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.”

— David Wilkerson

27. “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.”

— David Wilkerson

28. “If you are experiencing confusion, pain, and suffering, it may be that God is working things out for you in his own way. It is most often the sovereign work of our God unfolding a master plan known only to him.”

— David Wilkerson

29. “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.”

— David Wilkerson

30. “Jesus didn’t save you so you could cruise to heaven in a luxury liner. He wants you to be useful in His kingdom! The moment you got saved, He enrolled you in His school the school of suffering and affliction.”

— David Wilkerson

31. “Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They’re burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.”

— David Wilkerson

32. “We want his power more than his purity.”

— David Wilkerson

33. “God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed His name to go long offended.”

— David Wilkerson

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

— David Wilkerson

35. “God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!”

— David Wilkerson

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

— David Wilkerson

37. “From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.”

— David Wilkerson

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

— David Wilkerson

39. “As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.”

— David Wilkerson

40. “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.”

— David Wilkerson

41. “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.”

— David Wilkerson

42. “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.”

— David Wilkerson

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

— David Wilkerson

44. “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.”

— David Wilkerson

45. “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.”

— David Wilkerson

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

— David Wilkerson

47. “Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.”

— David Wilkerson

48. “In these times, God’s people must trust him for rest of body and soul.”

— David Wilkerson

49. “America is a giving nation and very compassionate.”

— David Wilkerson

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

— David Wilkerson