Top 100 Wilkerson Quotes
#1. That night, as he bounded up the steps and out of the church basement, nobody in the room could have imagined that they had just seen the man who, a decade from now, would become the first black president of the United States. NEW
Isabel Wilkerson
#2. A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance.
David Wilkerson
#3. Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.
Isabel Wilkerson
#4. True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.
David Wilkerson
#5. How can you know when you are trusting in man rather than in God? If you fall apart when someone else lets you down, or if the actions of others affect your walk with God, then you know you are leaning on the arm of flesh!
David Wilkerson
#6. To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.
David Wilkerson
#7. Still it made no sense to Pershing that one set of people could be in a cage, and the people outside couldn't see the bars.
Isabel Wilkerson
#8. Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and White waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.
Isabel Wilkerson
#9. Faith comes by hearing all the Word, not just preferred sections.
David Wilkerson
#10. We are so busy working on God, we forget He is trying to work on us. That is what this life is all about: God at work on us, trying to remake us into vessels of glory. We are so busy praying to change things that we have little time to allow prayer to change us.
David Wilkerson
#11. Paul emphasizes that it is not the natural Jew but the person who puts his faith in Jesus Christ who becomes Abraham's spiritual seed:
David Wilkerson
#12. You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.
Isabel Wilkerson
#13. As an enlisted sailor, I don't feel that the Navy is advancing me in rank fast enough, so I'm going to change my last name to Stains. My guess is they would rather promote me than to have to refer to me as Seaman Stains.
Brad Wilkerson
#14. The measure of a man's estimate of your strength," he finally told them, "is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.
Isabel Wilkerson
#15. You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you've got one you're trying to argue it away. People who don't believe in miracles shouldn't pray for them.
David Wilkerson
#16. Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's Word that as He has anchored us in the past, so He will in the future.
David Wilkerson
#18. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in him, and he will do it. Psalm 37:5
David Wilkerson
#19. God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!
David Wilkerson
#20. because of a chemical in his skin that some people resented and felt superior to and that no one on this earth could change.
Isabel Wilkerson
#21. As the distance of migration increases," wrote the migration scholar Everett Lee, "the migrants become an increasingly superior group.
Isabel Wilkerson
#22. When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you
to succeed, He's calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you.
David Wilkerson
#23. They say that dog is man's best friend, and I think it's true. My dog does a lot of the same stuff my best friend does, like drool on my couch, mooch my food and hump my wife.
Brad Wilkerson
#24. Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.
Isabel Wilkerson
#25. I call them the Sons of Anarchy Muhammad WilkerSON, Damon HarriSON, Sheldon RichardSON
Jon Gruden
#26. Sure, companies say they're sensitive to their employees' cultural heritages, but show up on casual Friday wearing a necklace made from the ears of your vanquished enemies and all hell breaks loose.
Brad Wilkerson
#27. Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
David Wilkerson
#28. I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought.
David Wilkerson
#29. That's why I preach today. Do not do spite," he said. "Spite does not pay. It goes around and misses the object that you aim and comes back and zaps you. And you're the one who pays for it.
Isabel Wilkerson
#32. The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.
David Wilkerson
#33. Worshippers aren't made when they see the enemy on the run, put to flight. The truth is, worshippers of God are made during dark, stormy nights. And how we respond to our storms determines just what kind of worshippers we are.
David Wilkerson
#34. The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.
David Wilkerson
#35. Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.
David Wilkerson
#36. The Bible tells us that in the last days Satan is going to pour out his wrath on the earth because he knows his time is short.
David Wilkerson
#37. When you think about it, there is really a fine line between being a proctologist and just being a perverted ass-freak. And according to the judge who sentenced me, that line is called a 'medical degree'.
Brad Wilkerson
#38. The legacy of the Bush administration is a lack of positive action on energy and the environment and profligate and irresponsible spending with no commensurate action to deal with looming liabilities.
Lawrence Wilkerson
#39. Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.
David Wilkerson
#40. Your only limitation is how much action you are willing to take
Carrie Wilkerson
#41. The state funneled money to private academies for white students.
Isabel Wilkerson
#42. Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the great migration. It's that massive. Many of us owe our very existence to the fact that people migrated.
Isabel Wilkerson
#43. Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
David Wilkerson
#45. The only part I can play in this war is to believe God will bring me, victorious, out of the battle.
David Wilkerson
#46. I bet that the best thing about being a hermaphrodite is that you always get to use the bathroom with the shortest line.
Brad Wilkerson
#47. I weep when I see these videos that are sent to me from all over the country. Whole groups of bodies jerking out of control, falling on the floor, laughing hysterically, staggering around like drunkards Anything that cannot be found in Scripture has to be rejected outright - totally rejected,
David Wilkerson
#48. [The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.
Isabel Wilkerson
#49. As far as the Lord is concerned, the time to stand is in the darkest moment. It is when everything seems hopeless, when there appears no way out, when God alone can deliver.
David Wilkerson
#50. Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.
David Wilkerson
#51. And they would go not with an eye to gaining converts but with an eye to meeting need. The conversions would take care of themselves.
David Wilkerson
#52. Many migrants did not recognize the signs of trouble when they surfaced and so could not inoculate their children against them or intercede effectively when the outside world seeped into their lives. George
Isabel Wilkerson
#54. Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer.
David Wilkerson
#55. She has big searching eyes that see the good in people despite the evil she has seen, and she has a comforting kind of eternal beauty, her skin like the folds of a velvet shawl. Her
Isabel Wilkerson
#56. How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
David Wilkerson
#58. Jesus didn't just die to forgive you, He rose to live through you.
Rich Wilkerson Jr.
#59. I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.
David Wilkerson
#60. County supervisors relented only after losing their case in the U.S. Supreme Court, choosing finally to reopen the schools rather than face imprisonment.
Isabel Wilkerson
#62. Beloved, God has never failed to act but in goodness and love. When all means fail-his love prevails. Hold fast to your faith. Stand fast in his Word. There is no other hope in this world.
David Wilkerson
#63. A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.
David Wilkerson
#64. We simply can't trust God's power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis.
David Wilkerson
#65. If you want God to act SUDDENLY then you're gonna have to pursue him PATIENTLY!
Rich Wilkerson Jr.
#66. Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it!
Cornel West
#68. From Louisiana, he followed the hyphens in the road that blurred together toward a faraway place, bridging unrelated things as hyphens do.
Isabel Wilkerson
#69. At first, He shook us very tenderly but now His shaking has become violent, because He has not succeeded in awakening us ... God is going to shake everything in sight so that He is revealed as the only unshakable power!
David Wilkerson
#70. They speak like melted butter and their children speak like footsteps on pavement ...
Isabel Wilkerson
#71. We humans can work hard for each other, and we should and we must work. But it is God, and only God, who heals. The Cross and the Switchblade, pg 90.
David Wilkerson
#72. God uses people. God uses people to perform His work. He does not send angels. Angels weep over it, but God does not use angels to accomplish His purposes. He uses burdened broken-hearted weeping men and women.
David Wilkerson
#73. It would take more than fifteen years before most of the South conceded to the Brown ruling and then only under additional court orders.
Isabel Wilkerson
#74. Dozens of school districts forwent federal funding rather than integrate their schools.
Isabel Wilkerson
#75. Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.
David Wilkerson
#76. The general laws of migration hold that the greater the obstacles and the farther the distance traveled, the more ambitious the migrants.
Isabel Wilkerson
#77. We are blood-secured, delivered from the enemy's power, and raised up into newness of life in God.
David Wilkerson
#78. They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.
Isabel Wilkerson
#79. As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.
David Wilkerson
#80. America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait ... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.
Isabel Wilkerson
#81. I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
David Wilkerson
#83. The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.
David Wilkerson
#84. 'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.
David Wilkerson
#87. Most Christians never associate joy with repentance. But repentance is actually the mother of all joy in Jesus. Without it, there can be no joy. Yet, any believer who walks in repentance will be flooded with the joy of the Lord.
David Wilkerson
#88. Now, we ain't got nothing to do with God's business, she says, sitting back in her seat. She adjusts herself and straightens her scarf, contenting herself with whatever the day has in store.
Isabel Wilkerson
#89. Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.
David Wilkerson
#90. I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.
David Wilkerson
#91. From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.
David Wilkerson
#92. It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.
Isabel Wilkerson
#93. If you are experiencing confusion, pain, and suffering, it may be that God is working things out for you in his own way. It is most often the sovereign work of our God unfolding a master plan known only to him.
David Wilkerson
#95. My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great wave. No one really talked about it in those terms or gave it a name.
Isabel Wilkerson
#96. I recently read that Arnold Schwarzenegger collects Hummers. Now we know why Maria's face is frozen in that puckered position.
Brad Wilkerson
#98. The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#99. At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.
David Wilkerson
#100. Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful condition. Rather, it is meant to reveal God's faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation.
David Wilkerson
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