Quotes by David Wilkerson

“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”

“I dont know how these things get started,”

“Our school board is committed to ongoing professional growth and development for staff,”

“Its hard for people to understand bringing 450 or 500 new kids just boom into the system, ... For our staff to make it so seamless is just a tribute to the amount of preparation they do to get things ready.”

“I gave them a mandolin, fiddle and bass and God done the rest.”

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.

The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.

The Holy Spirit is in charge here.We should write it for all to see on the lintels of every doorway we build. But since that might seem like so many words, we will do better: we will write it in our lives. And in all the lives we can reach out to and touch and inspire with the living Spirit of God.

What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears...deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping...it comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and wholeness

A suburban pastor maintained services appropriate for his respected, professional parish. His father, an excitable traveling evangelist, visited and challenged the congregation to confront pride and sing out loudly with the windows open. The next day, the pastor’s banker mentioned overhearing, and he was sheepish. The buttoned-up banker said, though, that the neighborhood had been WAITING TO HEAR the church live out the joy they claimed.

When people quit talking to God, they quit talking to one another. And people who quit talking to God soon get very lonely and depressed. They are actually lonely for God, hungering for communion with Him, yearning for His close love and nearness; but instead of recognizing these needs as spiritual, they blame their lack of fulfillment on their husbands or wives.

After much prayer, careful study and reliance on the Holy Spirit, I have concluded this about Christ’s intercession for us. Jesus died on the cross to purchase peace with God for me – and He is in heaven now to maintain that peace, for me and in me.

I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.

You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his mouth. You dont grab the bone from him and tell him its not good for him. Hell growl at you. Its the only thing he has. But you throw a big fat lamb chop in front of him, and hes going to drop that bone and pick up the lamb chop, his tail wagging to beat the band. And youve got a friend. Instead of going around grabbing bones from people... Im going to throw them some lamb chops. Something with real meat and life in it. Im going to tell them about New Beginnings.

Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.

When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. Thats what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.

It follows that a tender heart that reaches for love and understanding is often the easiest to break. Hearts that are open and trusting are usually the ones that are wounded the most. This world is filed with men and woman who have rejected the love offered to them from a heart that is gentle and tender. Those strong, hard-shelled hearts that trust no one, hearts that give so little, hearts that demand love be constantly proved, hearts that are always calculating hearts that are always manipulating and self-serving, hearts that are afraid to risk are the ones that seldom get broken. They dont get wounded, because there is nothing to wound. They are too proud and self-centered to allow anyone else to make them suffer in any way. They go about breaking other hearts and trampling on the fragile souls who touch their lives, simply because they are so thick and dull at heart themselves, and they think everyone should be just as they are.

Nicky Cruz: You come near me and Ill kill you!David Wilkerson: Yeah, you could do that. You could cut me up into a thousand pieces and lay them in the street, and every piece will still love you.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

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 dont have the patience to learn.