Top 40 Heidi Baker Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Obedience out of love is joy.”

— Heidi Baker

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2. “It’s not complicated. Just love the one in front of you.”

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3. “If you have God’s presence, you have favor. One minute of God’s presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.”

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4. “Love looks like something.”

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5. “Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It’s about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.”

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6. “You are God’s dream with skin on.”

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7. “All fruitfulness flows from intimacy.”

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8. “Suffering is seeing what Jesus sees, and joy is doing what Jesus does.”

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9. “More is accomplished by spending time in God’s presence than by doing anything else.”

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10. “The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love.”

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11. “God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal.”

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12. “If ministry is not about compassion and passion, let it die.”

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13. “If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else.”

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14. “If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.”

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15. “We must give up all that we are in order to possess all that He is.”

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16. “I don’t want to grow up, I want to grow down.”

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17. “Every single human being is created in the image of God; created for dignity, created for the Father’s love, created for kindness, created for mercy.”

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18. “If you stand, worship, and love God in the midst of lack and difficulty, you will never lose.”

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19. “Ministry is not about where you are or where you go, it is about where He is.”

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20. “The abundance of fruit comes out of intimacy with the Lord.”

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21. “But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.”

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22. “You are a paintbrush in hands of the Artist.”

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23. “When you’re in love with God, you’re not afraid to yield your life to Him.”

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24. “Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you.”

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25. “If you are called as a missionary – a “sent-out one” – then you are called to comfort those who mourn. You are called to love the broken until they understand God’s love – a love that never dies – through you.”

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26. “Rather than being purpose-driven, I prefer to be presence-centered. All our efforts in God’s Kingdom must originate from the place of rest, the place of His presence.”

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27. “Union and Communion: this is the essence of Christianity.”

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28. “The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love. To be a minister, we must walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, and be like Jesus for a broken and dying world.”

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29. “As our hearts become pure, our vision becomes clearer.”

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30. “The poor know they are in need.”

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31. “Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel.”

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32. “Why go to the ends of the earth if you have nothing to give?”

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33. “There is always enough because I died for you.”

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34. “I have been beaten up, shot at, and lied about. People have even tried to strangle me. I am not afraid. To this day I can walk boldly into gangs of armed thugs and tell them to stop in the name of Jesus. I expect them to drop their knives. Generally they turn surprisingly nice. Sometimes they look at me and apologize.”

— Heidi Baker

35. “God told me once, ‘I want you to come up to the lowest place.’”

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36. “It is when you become immersed in the love of the Father that you truly begin to love like Jesus. He wants to immerse you. He wants to hold you. He wants to take you to a place where you are so far over your head in the river of God that miracles happen all around you. He wants to fill you entirely with His Holy Spirit.”

— Heidi Baker

37. “Sometimes we make things too complicated when we really need to remember that the kingdom belongs to children.”

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38. “Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a labourer of love.”

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39. “God, I’m not satisfied. I cannot live ankle-, knee-, or waist-deep. I must be completely immersed in Your presence. Lord, here I am. Immerse me. I do not want to keep from drowning. I want to drown in Your love. I want to know what it is to be immersed and undone. I want to know what it is to be out of control and for You to be totally and completely in control. Lord, come like a rushing river. I invite You to sweep me away to deeper places.”

— Heidi Baker

40. “All I could think of was what a privilege it was to give my life away for love’s sake.”

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41. “We have to let go of our preconceived ideas, our carefully worked-out plans, our way of doing things so God can live in us. We need new life, His life. If we are going to make room to carry His glory, we have to die first. We have to take our place at the cross and say, as Jesus said, “Not my will but yours, God. Your will. I will drink the cup You have called me to drink, whatever the cost.”

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42. “It is not how good we are at being Christians but how good we are at dwelling and resting in God.”

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43. “Here’s some news for you: Without Him, you’ll never be good enough. I’ll never be good enough. We are nothing without our God. He takes our little lives, laid down at His feet in the dirt, and He wrecks us with His love. When we see Him in all His beauty and let Him reshape us and fill us with His Holy Spirit, we no longer look at our failures and faults, because our eyes are drawn to see only Him. Unless He fills me, everything is impossible. When He fills me, nothing is impossible.”

— Heidi Baker

44. “If you want to birth the miraculous you cannot afford to waste time getting offended. Offense stops you carrying the promise to full term and you never really know what God plans to do with a situation that offends you at first.”

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45. “Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.2.”

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46. “For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared.”

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47. “Claim total healing.”

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48. “A minister is simply a sent one. You might only be sent across the street, but it does not matter. To God, whether it is to one or the masses, it is the same – it is love incarnate.”

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49. “We are able to become lovers of God because He already accepts us. We may think we know ourselves, but when we do not accept ourselves, we only prove how little we understand. What a tragedy! The truth is that the God of the universe loves us deeply. We are covered in His blood. That is what allows us to know and love Him. When we understand this fully, we will walk in holiness and be altogether healed.”

— Heidi Baker