Top 50 Mike Bickle Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “God releases more of His power and presence according to the measure of our hunger for Him.”

— Mike Bickle

2. “Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do.”

— Mike Bickle

3. “I’m not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I’m looking for Bible verses and life experiences to teach me to live more radically for Christ.”

— Mike Bickle

4. “God gives salvation to the needy, but gives the deep things of His heart to the hungry who refuse to live without them.”

— Mike Bickle

5. “Your capacity to receive is based on your hunger to pursue.”

— Mike Bickle

6. “Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God.”

— Mike Bickle

7. “Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one’s life.”

— Mike Bickle

8. “With the same intensity that the Father loves Jesus, He loves you.”

— Mike Bickle

9. “I don’t want to be the biggest or the best, I want to be faithful.”

— Mike Bickle

10. “Understanding God’s great love for undeserving people such as us, gives us insight into His great majesty. As beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, so great love reveals the nature of the One who loves deeply.”

— Mike Bickle

11. “If you are too busy for prayer, you are too busy for a relationship with God.”

— Mike Bickle

12. “Our work for God is to flow from loving God; thus, we work with Him instead of for Him.”

— Mike Bickle

13. “Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.”

— Mike Bickle

14. “Worship is not a twenty minute period during a church service, but a lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way.”

— Mike Bickle

15. “If we have the Word without the Spirit, we dry up. If we have the Spirit without the Word, we blow up. But if we have the Word and the Spirit, we grow up.”

— Mike Bickle

16. “Don’t evaluate yourself, don’t evaluate others. Just keep going after it.”

— Mike Bickle

17. “Our emotions are not transformed by trying harder, but by seeing more clearly.”

— Mike Bickle

18. “Find your security, success, and peace in God. Then, and only then, can it never be taken from you.”

— Mike Bickle

19. “Jesus wants us to love Him in a way that gives Him full leadership over our lives.”

— Mike Bickle

20. “Jesus is never bored in his relationship with you.”

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21. “We offer our prayers in weakness but they ascend in power because of the blood of Jesus.”

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22. “We love God with our mind by taking the time to fill our mind with the Word.”

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23. “God wants us to respond in wholehearted love because it is who He is and who He created us to be.”

— Mike Bickle

24. “The small prayers of weak and broken people move the heart of God.”

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25. “Any who love Jesus will love others much more.”

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26. “One of the greatest hinderances of abiding in God is the lack of ability to say NO to people and opportunities.”

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27. “The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.”

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28. “Beloved, our private times of prayer and our public prayer meetings may not move us, but they move the angels, and more importantly, they move the heart of God. Never measure your prayers by what you feel; when we pray in agreement with God’s will, our “weak prayers” move the heart of God even if they do not move ours.”

— Mike Bickle

29. “Jesus called us to abide in Him. The foundation of this reality means to talk with Him.”

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30. “It is not enough to desire to pray; we must resolutely stay with it.”

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31. “This prayer for the Holy Spirit to strengthen the inner man of believers is one of the most important prayers recorded in the Scripture, and it is vital that we understand it if we want to grow in prayer.”

— Mike Bickle

32. “The power of God tenderizes and changes us, not spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines only position us to receive.”

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33. “God doesn’t love you more when you obey, you experience Him more!”

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34. “Demons don’t move because we complain. They move because we speak the name of Jesus.”

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35. “People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire.”

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36. “The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation-lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling mom, and so on-to have a real prayer life.”

— Mike Bickle

37. “It won’t matter who my friends were; it won’t matter my endorsements; what matters is my heart’s response to him.”

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38. “We will all be far better spouses, parents, and leaders as we take time to grow in prayer.”

— Mike Bickle

39. “The Second Coming will probably happen within the lifetime of people living today.”

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40. “There’s no Biblical definition of contemplative prayer.”

— Mike Bickle

41. “Radical isn’t about how high you jump in a worship service, its about how you walk when you come down.”

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42. “We will never have more affection or passion for God than we understand He has for us. We will never be more committed to God than our understanding of His commitment to us.”

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43. “God’s grace is sufficient when we come up short in our obedience, but it is important to call sin “sin” and declare war on it. Those who love God in truth will set their hearts to live in a spirit of obedience in every area of their lives – including their use of time, money, and words, and in what their eyes look at.”

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44. “The essence of how God thinks and feels is wholehearted love.”

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45. “We will never be completely satisfied by our achievements, skills, wealth, fame, pleasures, or possessions. Why? Because the human heart was created to need more than what is available to us in the natural realm. Only the eternal, supernatural God can fill our longings.”

— Mike Bickle

46. “To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.1 – JOHN CALVIN.”

— Mike Bickle

47. “A true biblical eschatology prepares overcomers for the difficulties they must endure and helps them to stand with confidence that the greatest outpouring of the Holy Spirit is surely coming.”

— Mike Bickle

48. “Smiling in Heaven isn’t required – it’s inevitable.”

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49. “We must know the power of truth and experience the truth about power.”

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50. “Almost every Spirit filled believer is able to prophesy on an inspirational level.”

— Mike Bickle