Top 40 Derek Prince Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Fasting deals with the two great barriers to the Holy Spirit that are erected by man’s carnal nature. These are the stubborn self-will of the soul and the insistent self-gratifying appetites of the body.”

— Derek Prince

2. “God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.”

— Derek Prince

3. “Endeavoring to live the Christian life by your own efforts is the greatest single hindrance to walking in the Spirit.”

— Derek Prince

4. “The people who really rule the world are those who know how to pray.”

— Derek Prince

5. “Truth is not obtained cheaply. It demands much time given to prayer and study of the Scriptures, followed by practical application in our daily lives. It must take priority over the many forms of cheap entertainment offered by our secular culture. It is a lifetime commitment.”

— Derek Prince

6. “Faith is taking God seriously.”

— Derek Prince

7. “The provision is in the promises.”

— Derek Prince

8. “We can not effectively serve God without the Holy Spirit.”

— Derek Prince

9. “Jesus was never worried or perplexed. He was calmly and completely in control of every situation. He never doubted that His Father’s goodness would provide everything He needed. And the Father never failed Him.”

— Derek Prince

10. “A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.”

— Derek Prince

11. “The problem with most religious people is they try to earn grace but you can’t earn it. And as long as you’re trying to earn it by works, you don’t receive it. At some point you just have to stop trying to earn it and just receive it.”

— Derek Prince

12. “It is unscriptural to pray for the sick if one is not prepared also to cast out demons. Jesus did not separate one from the other.”

— Derek Prince

13. “Ten of the twelve spies focused on the problems, not on the promises. Two of the twelve spies, Joshua and Caleb, focused on the promises, not on the problems. Joshua and Caleb said, “We are well able.” The other spies said, “We are not able.” Each got exactly what they said. They all settled their own destinies by the way they used their tongues.”

— Derek Prince

14. “God does not look for success as the world understands it. He looks for faithfulness. “Who is that faithful servant?” Success is accomplishing faithfully the task allotted to you by the Lord.”

— Derek Prince

15. “We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.”

— Derek Prince

16. “You see, between us and God’s wisdom is a valley, a place of humility. We have to lay aside worldly wisdom. We have to become fools in the eyes of the world in order that we may really enter into God’s wisdom.”

— Derek Prince

17. “When you have met God’s conditions, He casts your sins behind His back into the ocean of His forgetfulness. It was Corrie ten Boom who added, “And when God casts our sins into the ocean, He puts up a sign: No fishing!” If almighty God has forgotten your sins, why should you try to remember them?”

— Derek Prince

18. “Consider the work of Calvary. A perfect work, perfect in every respect, perfect in every aspect.”

— Derek Prince

19. “God does not measure everything by numbers or dimensions. He has another scale of values, according to which-asJesus Himself told us-one human soul is worth more than the entire universe.”

— Derek Prince

20. “No weapon that is formed against me shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against me in judgment I do condemn. This is my heritage as a servant of the Lord, and my righteousness is from You, O Lord of Hosts.”

— Derek Prince

21. “The purpose of God for the Christian is the consistent expression of divine love.”

— Derek Prince

22. “If you don’t get excited about the gospel, you’ve never really grasped what it’s telling you.”

— Derek Prince

23. “The Bible is God’s own Word. It is God’s great gift to all people everywhere.”

— Derek Prince

24. “The great evangelist Dwight Moody once said, “When I was a young Christian, I thought that God kept His gifts on shelves and the best gifts were on the highest shelves and I would have to reach up. I learned later the best gifts are on the lowest shelf and I had to stoop down.” In.”

— Derek Prince

25. “We are rebels at war with God. We cannot make peace with Him until we lay down our rebellion –.”

— Derek Prince

26. “What kind of spiritual sacrifices does God expect us to offer? Just as Jesus offered up prayers and petitions during His life on earth, so should we. When we learn to pray, then we are qualified to rule.”

— Derek Prince

27. “Remember, when you’re reading your Bible, your Bible is also reading you.” It is a two-way transaction.”

— Derek Prince

28. “At this point God taught me another important lesson: He would do for me what I could not do for myself, but He would not do for me what He required me to do for myself. God had responded to my cry and delivered me from the spirit of heaviness, but after that He held me responsible to exercise scriptural discipline over my own thoughts.”

— Derek Prince

29. “For those whose outlook is limited to the material realm, contentment and security must be measured in terms of material abundance. But for those who have learned to look in faith to God, there is another Source, inexhaustible and unfluctuating.”

— Derek Prince

30. “The power of proclamation is the one weapon the church needs to major in these days.”

— Derek Prince

31. “One way not to receive an answer to a petition is to go on praying for it. Some people pray themselves into faith and then pray themselves out of faith.”

— Derek Prince

32. “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.”

— Derek Prince

33. “Lord, I realize that I have tended toward the independence described in this chapter. Before I go one step further, I want to settle this issue with You. I repent, and I ask Your forgiveness for having this “boastful pride of life” – this tendency to seek independence from You and Your plans for me. I want to reverse that now. Lord, I make this declaration to You: By Your grace, I will live from now on in willing dependence upon You. Amen.”

— Derek Prince

34. “The blood of Christ is the visible, eternal evidence of the sacrifice that Jesus made on our behalf. When we come in the name of Jesus, we come in the merits of the blood that He shed on our behalf.”

— Derek Prince

35. “The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant. Psalm 25:14, emphasis added.”

— Derek Prince

36. “Out of the foolishness of the cross comes the unsearchable wisdom of God. So we have to turn to something very weak and very foolish to receive God’s wisdom and God’s strength.”

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37. “The great revelation of the will of God is the Word of God. And the Word of God is packed from beginning to end with divine promises. The.”

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38. “In a certain sense God has committed to every father the responsibility to embody, as a person, the ultimate revelation of the Bible, fatherhood. To be a real father is the most perfect depiction of God that any man can achieve, because it is the ultimate revelation of God Himself. In fact, every father represents God to his family. That is not an option! The question is, Do you as a father represent God rightly or wrongly?”

— Derek Prince

39. “Every word is true. It is filled with God’s own power and authority.”

— Derek Prince

40. “And that is why we sometimes have to push through enemy territory when we pray. It is not that we are praying out of the will of God, or that God is unwilling to hear us, but that we have to penetrate a hostile kingdom in the heavenlies in order to reach Him.”

— Derek Prince

41. “The decision that the man was to marry proceeded from God, not from the man.”

— Derek Prince

42. “A curse could also be likened to a long, evil arm stretched out from the past. It rests upon you with a dark, oppressive force that inhibits the full expression of your personality. You never feel completely free to be yourself. You sense that you have potential within you that is never fully developed. You always expect more of yourself than you are able to achieve.”

— Derek Prince

43. “How do I know the will of God? Where is the will of God revealed? The answer is in His Word. The great revelation of the will of God is the Word of God. And the Word of God is packed from beginning to end with divine promises. The.”

— Derek Prince