59 Smith Wigglesworth Quotes About The Bible, Healing, Prayer, Faith

Smith Wigglesworth (1859–1947) was a British evangelist who had a great impact on the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement.

Mr. Wigglesworth first encountered God when he was a young boy and got saved when he was 8 years old. He started working when he was very young, and missed out on most of his formal education. Smith met his wife serving with the Salvation Army ministries, and she taught him how to read the Bible. That became the only book he would read.

Smith worked as a plumber for most of his young adult life. When he was ~50 he stepped into full-time ministry and travelled to many different countries preaching and praying for people.

Smith wrote numerous books about faith, healing, and the power of the Holy Spirit. Manifesting the Power of God: Walking in God’s Anointing was the first Smith Wigglesworth book I read, and would highly recommend it.

In this post, I’ve gathered up 50+ Smith Wigglesworth quotes about healing, the Bible, faith, the Holy Spirit, and prayer.

Quotes on healing

“God’s Word never fails. He will always heal you if you dare to believe Him. Men are searching everywhere today for things with which they can heal themselves, and they ignore the fact that the Balm of Gilead (Jeremiah 8:22) is within easy reach.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Dare you, dare you spurn this glorious Gospel of God for spirit, soul and body?….This Gospel that brings liberty, this Gospel that brings souls out of bondage, this Gospel that brings perfect health to the body, this Gospel of entire salvation.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“You must never treat a cancer case as anything else but a living evil spirit…this form of disease is one that you must cast out.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“The secret was just thus, those six people had gotten their eyes off the sick man, and they were just taken up with the Lord Jesus Himself, and their faith grasped the power that there is in His name. O, if people would only appreciate the power that there is in this name, there is no telling what would happen.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Around the pool of Bethesda lay a great multitude of folk, waiting for the moving of the water. (John 5:2- 4) Undoubtedly, many had their eyes on the pool and had no eyes for Jesus. There are many today who always have their confidence in things they can see. If they would only get their eyes on God instead of on natural things.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“You will always be right when you dare to treat sickness as the devil’s work.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“You can never pray ‘the prayer of faith’ (James 5:15) if you look at the person who is needing it; there is only one place to look, and that is to Jesus.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“The man who wants to work the works of God must never look at conditions but at Jesus.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Faith is just the open door through which the Lord comes. Do not say, ‘I was saved by faith’ or ‘I was healed by faith.’ Faith does not save and heal. God saves and heals through that open door. You believe, and the power of Christ comes.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing and that is longsuffering.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Is salvation and healing for all? It is for all who will press in and get their portion. The word can drive every disease away from your body. It is your portion in Christ, Him who is our bread, our life, our health, our all in all.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Praise is God’s sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life’s activities.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“The Lord does not heal you to go to a baseball game or to a racetrack. He heals you for His glory so that from that moment your life will glorify Him.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

Quotes on prayer

“I don’t often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“A prayer without faith is without accomplishment.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in operation…I can pray in the Holy Ghost, and that prayer is effectual to bring down every stronghold of the enemy.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“I’ll only pray for you once, to pray twice is unbelief”.
– Smith Wigglesworth

“God is more eager to answer than we are to ask.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

Quotes on the Bible

“You have to bring your mind to the Word of God and not try to bring the Word of God to your mind.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“There are four principles we need to maintain : First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word of God.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“I can’t understand God by feelings. I can’t understand the Lord Jesus Christ by feelings. I can only understand God the Father and Jesus Christ by what the Word says about them. God is everything the Word says He is. We need to get acquainted with Him through the Word.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost. You must everyday make higher ground. You must deny yourself to make progress with God.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“If I read the newspaper I come out dirtier than I went in. If I read my Bible, I come out cleaner than I went in, and I like being clean!”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“The Word of God will be the same whether people believe it or not.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“I find nothing in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness. Therefore, if I live in the world, I will become worldly; on the other hand, if I live in the Bible, I will become holy.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“If it is in the Bible, it is so. It’s not even to be prayed about. It’s to be received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comes by action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faith to faith.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Nothing in the world glorifies God so much as simple rest of faith in what God’s Word says.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“The living Word is able to destroy Satanic forces.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

Quotes on faith

“There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“No wavering. This is the principle: He who believes is definite. A definite faith brings a definite experience and a definite utterance.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Faith is actively refusing the power of the devil. It is not saying mere words.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe. I know this, no man looks at appearances if he believes. No man considers how he feels if he believes. The man who believes God has it.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“The blood of Jesus Christ and His mighty name are an antidote to all the subtle seeds of unbelief that Satan would sow in your minds.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“There is nothing that our God cannot do. He will do everything if you will dare to believe.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Real faith built the ark, but real faith did not shut the door. God did that. He does what you cannot do.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“I believe that there is only one way to all the treasures of God, and that is the way of faith. By faith and faith alone do we enter into a knowledge of the attributes and become partakers of the beatitudes, and participate in… promises are Yea and Amen to them that believe.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“God wants us all to have an audacity of faith that dares to believe for all that is set forth in the word.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“It is one to say you have faith and another to be in a tight corner and prove it.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Believe that when you come into the presence of God you can have all you came for. You can take it away, and you can use it, for all the power of God is at your disposal in response to your faith.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“There are two kinds of faith. There is the natural faith. But the supernatural faith is the gift of God.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Without faith, you have nothing. You cannot be saved without it. You cannot be healed without it.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

Quotes on the Holy Spirit

“Our blessed Lord Jesus is still alive, and continues His ministry through those who are filled with His Spirit.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“The Spirit reveals, unfolds, takes of the things of Christ and shows them to us, and prepares us to be more than a match for Satanic forces.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“If you want to increase in the life of God, then you must settle it in your heart that you will not at any time resist the Holy Spirit. The Holy Ghost and fire – the fire burning up everything that would impoverish and destroy you.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Ghost, get down and pray for power.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“God dwells in you, but you cannot have this divine power until you live and walk in the Holy Ghost, until the power of the new life is greater than the old life.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“We must be careful not to choose, but to let God’s Holy Spirit manage our lives; not to smooth down and explain away, but to stir up the gift and allow God’s Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God’s mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Thought for today: When the Holy Spirit comes into your body, He comes to unveil the King, to assure you of His presence.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“When the Holy Spirit comes, He will reveal things to you. Has He revealed them yet? He is going to do it. Just expect Him to do so. The best thing for you is to expect Him to do it now.”
– Smith Wigglesworth

“Man may be saved and still be carnally minded. When many people hear about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, their carnal minds at once arise against the Holy Spirit.”
– Smith Wigglesworth