15 Aimee Semple McPherson Quotes
Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson (1890–1944), also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s. Aimee helped found Foursquare Church, and held healing revival meetings with thousands of people.
In 1922, Aimee McPherson explained her vision of “Foursquare Gospel” in a sermon in Oakland, California. She wanted to focus on the 4 aspects of the ministry of Jesus; Savior, Baptizer with the Holy Ghost, Healer, and King.
Here are some of my favorite Aimee Semple McPherson Quotes:
“What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
“The “going down” leads to the “going up.” Going down into the realization of our need, and the emptying of self, brings down the mantle of power and the filling with the Spirit.”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
“He met the sinner and saved him. He met the sick and healed them. He met the demon-possessed and delivered him. He met life’s problem and solved it.”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
“God is no respecter of persons. What He has done for us, He waits to do for you. His shelves are not bare. His cupboards are filled to overflowing. His tables groan with the weight of food which He has to offer. Come, draw up your chair; place your feet under the Father’s table and feed your hungry soul.”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
“The Master stands ready and willing to change the “weaker water experience” into the rich, deep, full “wine experience” of the Kingdom.”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
“What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
“A revival, in order to measure up to this Scriptural model should clearly teach, and, as far as possible, help believers through into the experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit which is an enduement of power intended to equip the Christian for service and practical soul-winning for the Master.”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
“Any success which has followed my ministry is attributed to the motivating power of the Holy Spirit in my own life.”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
“The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
“With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we’re gonna cover the world!”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
“Divine healing was the “turnkey” who went ahead to the doors of “Doubting Castle” and swung them upon their creaking hinges, that the Sun of Righteousness might enter in with healing in His wings; drive back the dominion of night and set the prisoners of darkness free.”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
“Coming to Christ for divine healing is like taking your watch to a watchmaker for repairs.”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
“The first lie the devil told the human family, the first seed of doubt he sowed in their hearts was that of doubting the veracity and absolute, unchangeable truth of God’s Word. He has been engaged with the same task ever since.”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
“That which the wind is to the sail; and that which the steam is to the engine; so is the Holy Spirit to the church.”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
“Press in close to the Master — the Great Physician — the Shepherd of the sheep, who stands waiting with his cruse of oil to make us whole in body, soul and spirit.”
– Aimee Semple McPherson
