David Wilkerson Quotes

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

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.

Nicky Cruz: You come near me and I'll 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.

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

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

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

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.

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 don't grab the bone from him and tell him it's not good for him. He'll growl at you. It's the only thing he has. But you throw a big fat lamb chop in front of him, and he's going to drop that bone and pick up the lamb chop, his tail wagging to beat the band. And you've got a friend. Instead of going around grabbing bones from people... I'm going to throw them some lamb chops. Something with real meat and life in it. I'm going to tell them about New Beginnings.

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.

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

When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set His heart on you, to show you His love and care.

I knew from my work in the church how important a role tears play in making a man whole.

Faith is taking God at what He says he is—because God is faithful!

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

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.

When you are deeply hurt, no person on this earth can shut out the innermost fears and deepest agonies. The best of friends cannot really understand the battle you are going through or the wounds inflicted on you. Only God can shut out the waves of depression and feelings of loneliness and failure that come over you. Faith in God’s love alone can salvage the hurt mind. The bruised and broken heart that suffers in silence can be healed only by a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit, and nothing short of divine intervention really works.

80 percent of white Americans hold unconscious bias against black Americans, bias so automatic that it kicks in before a person can process it, according to the Harvard sociologist David R. Williams.

A New York times reporter wrote about David Wilkerson,"He was the model of absolute simplicity, directness and non-sophistication. He sought out gang members, drug addicts and alcoholics with no other weapon than the Bible. He just went out on the streets, mixed with the kids and reasoned with them face to face, often quoting the Bible, and it worked.

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.

I am the Lord, I do not change” (Malachi 3:6).

God didn’t promise to give you a painless way of life: He promised you a way of escape. He promised you help to bear your pain and to give you strength to put you back on your feet when weakness makes you stagger.

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.

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.

The temptation is not in failing or in laying down the cross because of weakness. The real temptation is in trying to pick up that cross and carrying it on in our own strength.

...Yet, tragically, many today still eat at the table of demons, serving their own lustful appetites, and then attempt to come to the Lord's table and feast with the righteous. This leads only to spiritual sickness and death because these deceived ones do not discern the true Bread of God. These sickly sheep have become so spiritually weak and diseased by sin that they cannot eat strong meat. Instead, the prefer to nibble at the husks of ear-tickling teachings. They gravitate toward lightness and entertainment rather than the genuine Word. Their spiritual appetites have become dull as a result of eating too much junk food.

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.

Don't worry about whether God is saying 'Yes' or 'No' to your (prayer) request. Don't be downcast when the answer is not in sight. Quick thinking of faith formulas and methods. Just commit every prayer to Jesus and go about your business with confidence that He will not be one moment early or late in answering. And, if the answer you seek is not forthcoming, say to your heart, 'He is all I need. If I need more, He will not withhold it. He will do it in His time, in His way; and, if He does not fulfill my request, He must have a perfect reason for not doing so. No mater what happens, I will always have faith in His faithfulness.

Here, in simple terms, is God’s primary purpose in formulating the New Covenant. It was to recover a lost humanity from the devil’s power. The heavenly Father was not willing to lose His beloved creation to the powers of hell, so He formed a redemption plan—one that came completely from His heart of love, before the world was created.

You can pray all you want, but if you do not pray with faith, you will never have the mind of God conveyed to you.

We humans can work hard for each other, and we should and we must work. But it is God, and only God, who heals.

Apathy? I see something taking place in the Church all over the world today that grieves God’s heart: a widespread apathy toward sin. God’s people are no longer outraged about the filth and evil bombarding their lives and homes. On the contrary, millions of believers sit by passively and let their minds become saturated with sensual movies, videos, television, the Internet, magazines and other media. It is unbelievable how these Christians willingly allow their lusts to be fed as their imaginations are filled with deep roots of evil. If you think I am focusing too much on the secret sins of Christians, then I say you are out of touch with what is happening in the world today. You must know nothing of how widespread the infection of sin is among God’s people. I cite to you, for example, the scores of Christians who flock to movie theaters each week and hear the name of Christ used as a curse word. I have never understood how anyone who fears almighty God and wishes to walk righteously before Him can sit by idly as the Lord’s name is being damned. That is simply beyond my comprehension. Yet multitudes of believers are doing just that. Little by little, they are drifting deeper into pits of secret, hidden sin. Slowly but surely, their sense of conviction is being drained out of them. They do not realize it, but their minds are being corrupted by what they are allowing their eyes to feast on.

I must accept my Father’s loving help in resisting and overcoming. Sin is like an octopus with many tentacles trying to crush out my life. Seldom do all tentacles loosen their hold on me at once. It is one tentacle at a time. In this war against sin, it is a victory won through one soldier dying at a time. Seldom does the entire enemy army fall dead at a single blast. It is hand-to-hand combat. It is one small victory at a time. But God doesn’t send me out to do battle without a war plan. He is my Commander; I will fight—inch by inch, hour by hour—under His direction. He dispatches the Holy Spirit to me, with clear directions on how to fight, when to run, where to strike next. This battle against principalities and powers is His

Go ahead—read your Bible through in a year from a sense of duty. Pray for hours each day. Go to church every time the doors are open for services. Wrestle down your besetting sins. Be good, and do good. But I tell you, “Without faith it is impossible to please him” (Hebrews 11:6). Abraham

The committee hanged the body “from an oak tree on the courthouse lawn.” People reportedly displayed Neal’s fingers and toes as souvenirs. Postcards of his dismembered body went for fifty cents each. When the sheriff cut down the body the next morning, a mob of as many as two thousand people demanded that it be rehanged. When the sheriff refused to return it to the tree, the mob attacked the courthouse and rampaged through Marianna, attacking any colored person they ran into. Well-to-do whites hid their maids or sent cars to bring their workers to safety. “We needed these people,” said a white man who sat on his porch protecting his interests with a loaded Winchester. Florida Governor David Sholtz had to call in the National Guard to quell the mob. Across

In a psychic way, the people dying of despair could be said to be dying of the end of an illusion, an awakening to the holes in an article of faith that an inherited, unspoken superiority, a natural deservedness over subordinated castes, would assure their place in the hierarchy. They had relied on this illusion, perhaps beyond the realm of consciousness and perhaps needed it more than any other group in a forbiddingly competitive society “in which downward social mobility was a constant fear,” the historian David Roediger wrote. “One might lose everything, but not whiteness.

High levels of everyday discrimination contribute to narrowing the arteries over time,” said the Harvard social scientist David R. Williams. “High levels of discrimination lead to higher levels of inflammation, a marker of heart disease.” People who face discrimination, Williams said, often build up a layer of unhealthy fat, known as visceral fat, surrounding vital organs, as opposed to subcutaneous fat, just under the skin. It is this visceral fat that raises the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease and leads to premature death. And it can be found in people of all ethnicities based on their experience of discrimination.

They are not all Israel who are of Israel” (Romans 9:6). “Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham” (Galatians 3:7). “Those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed” (Romans 9:8). “He is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God” (Romans 2:28–29). “This Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children—but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all” (Galatians

faith does not come through witnessing supernatural works or miracles, but through God’s Word: “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17). You may ask, “What is the specific word that produces faith?” It is the word that reveals who our heavenly Father is. This is how we discover who He is—by seeing and believing for ourselves who He claims to be—and this occurs most often as God meets us in our trials. Where Was God? So why did God lead the Israelites to the waters of bitterness at Marah? Why did He not provide fresh water? Considering that He took control of an entire sea of water for them, it should have been easy for Him to change the waters at Marah! All He had to do was speak, and those waters would have been purified before the Israelites ever arrived. Why did

To imagine an end to caste in America, we need only look at the history of Germany. It is living proof that if a caste system—the twelve-year reign of the Nazis—can be created, it can be dismantled. We make a serious error when we fail to see the overlap between our country and others, the common vulnerability in human programming, what the political theorist Hannah Arendt called “the banality of evil.” “It’s all too easy to imagine that the Third Reich was a bizarre aberration,” wrote the philosopher David Livingstone Smith, who has studied cultures of dehumanization. “It’s tempting to imagine that the Germans were (or are) a uniquely cruel and bloodthirsty people. But these diagnoses are dangerously wrong. What’s most disturbing about the Nazi phenomenon is not that the Nazis were madmen or monsters. It’s that they were ordinary human beings.

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 don't 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.

Lo había conocido años atrás cuando asistió a una de mis cruzadas, donde lloró arrepentido y oró pidiendo ser salvo. Aquella noche salió de la sala de oración con verdadero gozo en su corazón. Pero ahora se veía completamente desolado; nunca en mi vida había visto un rostro joven tan triste. Me dijo: —Señor Wilkerson, no sé hacia dónde encaminarme. No tengo gozo, y Dios parece estar muy lejos. Me siento tentado, y temo que voy a caer en el pecado y perder mi contacto con Dios. ¡No siento nada más que temor y temblor! Le puse la mano en el hombro y le dije: — Hijo, esta es tu hora de prueba. Dios te está probando para ver qué hay en tu corazón. ¿Estás dispuesto a arrepentirte, aceptar su perdón y seguir acercándote a la Luz? Dios no te ha abandonado. De repente empezaron a correrle lágrimas por las mejillas: — ¿Quiere decir que en realidad Dios no está enojado conmigo? — No — respondí. — Y este desasosiego y desesperanza que tengo, ¿será resultado de algún hábito terrible en mi vida? — me preguntó. Le dije que eso sólo él podía contestarlo. — Pues no, no lo creo — replicó él. Entonces, de pronto, comenzó a ver la luz: ¡después de todo no era culpa de Dios! Era su descuido de la oración y del hambre por la Palabra, durante su temporada de sufrimiento, lo que le había hecho temer y tropezar. En ese momento el Espíritu del Señor comenzó a dispensarle esperanza; levantó sus manos y alabó al Señor: “Ayúdame a salir de esto, Señor. ¡Restaura mi fe!” Cuando me despedí de él, le estaba dando gracias a Dios por hacerlo retornar a un compromiso sólido. El Espíritu Santo estaba comenzando a resplandecer de nuevo en él.

With every achievement, his estimation of himself had grown smaller. Early on, Paul went from strength to strength in his accomplishments for the gospel. In AD 55 he wrote to the church in Corinth that he was no less than any of the other apostles. Two years later, he wrote something very different to the Ephesians, stating, “I am the least of all saints.” Finally, in his last known letter, Paul wrote, “I am the chief of sinners.” That was my father. In the beginning of his ministry, David Wilkerson was a crusading young zealot, making a massive imprint on the world for Christ. Later, as he gazed hard into his own brokenness, he realized, “I am dependent on God for everything,” and he offered genuine encouragement to others in their sufferings. By the end of his life, amid his anguished battle to know love, he claimed, “I can do nothing. He did it all. ‘It is finished.

Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in him, and he will do it. Psalm 37:5

Take any minister at his worst, quote him out of context, magnify his shortcomings and blind spots, and you can make a monster (or even a heretic) out of just about anyone.

Prodigals are not always the runaways but sometimes are those who stay on the family path.

In the Old Testament, it was a disgrace for women, such as Hannah, to be barren, to be unable to bear children (see 1 Sam. 1:11). And under the New Covenant, it’s a disgrace (in my opinion) for Spirit-filled believers to be barren, to spend our entire lives without receiving and developing a heavenly burden from the Lord.

Some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don’t want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe His Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they’re living just to die.

Rev. David Wilkerson Warned that Former Witches Have Infiltrated Many Christian Churches: David Wilkerson exposed the current efforts of false teachers to infiltrate Christianity. Rev. Wilkerson was the pastor at Times Square Church in New York City, where he founded Teen Challenge, an addiction recovery program. He wrote, The Cross and the Switchblade, and he served as an evangelist for over 50 years (1). Throughout his ministry, Rev. Wilkerson preached against apostasy, including dominionism and the teaching that there is no literal return of Jesus (2). Shortly before his death, he stated that several former witches warned him that occultists were infiltrating the Church. They said witches are penetrating congregations and masquerading as super-spiritual Christians (3). Today, it is difficult to find a Christian Church that has not been transformed by this occult revival. References: 1. Wilkerson, David. The Cross and the Switchblade. Jove Publications. 1962. 2. Wilkerson, David, Rev. “Witchcraft in the Church.” Believers Web.org, 3. IBID.

All of these groups appear to be paying a price when they step outside of the roles assigned them in the hierarchy. “High levels of everyday discrimination contribute to narrowing the arteries over time,” said the Harvard social scientist David R. Williams. “High levels of discrimination lead to higher levels of inflammation, a marker of heart disease.

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 unshakeable power. -David Wilkerson

Psalm 73:1: “Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are pure in heart.” Here the psalmist is speaking prophetically, distinguishing Israel as people whose hearts have been cleansed—which is possible only through the blood of Christ.

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:

Jesus answered the Father this way: “You have shown Me that Your help to humanity is going to be laid upon My shoulders. You are sending Me to rescue the imprisoned, heal the hurting, break satanic strongholds and reconcile creation back to You. Father, I accept this charge to take on the redemption of the lost, and I accept the might and power You will give Me to accomplish the task.

Pain is always worse in the night. Loneliness falls like a cloud, when the sun disappears. The hurting explodes when you are all alone, trying to understand how to cope with the inner voices and fears that keep surfacing.

God answers us by showing His love. When we have learned how weak we are and have learned to trust His love and forgiveness, He will stoop down and gently help us back to the nest.

The only part I can play in this war is to believe God will bring me, victorious, out of the battle.

Dondequiera que uno vaya en la actualidad, un número cada vez mayor de miembros del pueblo de Dios están rechazando el señorío de Cristo. Están clamando que quieren ser “como todas las naciones”. Esa es la esencia de la componenda o de la mezcla: ser semejantes al mundo. Están diciendo: “¡Queremos a Dios, y al mundo también!” Quieren el reconocimiento y el prestigio que el mundo confiere, los placeres del mundo y la “buena vida” del lujo.

Con Habacuc, las personas son capaces de decir: “Aunque todo lo demás falle, mi corazón se gozará solamente en Dios.” Aun cuando el fracaso parezca rodearlas por todos lados y ven poca evidencia de frutos, su dolor da paso a un éxtaxis de gozo porque están cerca del corazón del Señor.

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.

Creo que no somos verdaderamente salvos sino hasta que nuestro corazón se decide con firmeza a andar con Dios. Podemos asegurar que somos salvos y que lo amamos, y podemos decirle al mundo entero que pertenecemos a Dios. Hasta podemos orar, llorar y devorar su Palabra. Pero si no andamos cerca de Él cada día, nunca vamos a cambiar. Vamos a caer cada vez más hondo en la esclavitud.

Tú no te perteneces; has sido comprado por precio. Has sido elegido para desposarte con Cristo. Y yo, el Espíritu de Dios, he sido enviado para revelarte la verdad que te hará libre de todo otro amor. Mi verdad romperá toda cadena del pecado y resolverá toda incredulidad. Porque no eres de este mundo; estás caminado hacia un glorioso encuentro con tu Desposado, estás siendo preparado para su banquete de bodas. Ya todo está listo, ¡y te estoy preparando a ti! Quiero presentarte sin mancha, llevando en tu corazón un amor apasionado por Él.

El Señor me ha dado una palabra, y es la siguiente: El ha provisto un modo de fortalecer a todo hijo suyo para que resista al enemigo. Esta fortaleza sólo viene de comer el Pan enviado del cielo. Y nuestra salud y fortaleza espiritual dependen de que comamos de ese Pan.

Es asombroso pero cierto: el lugar más cómodo y tranquilizador de la conciencia para esconderse de los ojos llameantes de un Dios santo es dentro de una iglesia muerta. Sus predicadores funcionan más como funerarios que como apóstoles de la vida. En vez de guiar a los hambrientos creyentes hacia la vida abundante que Cristo ofrece, les dan blandas palabras de ánimo para tratar de calmarles el hambre: “Todo está bien.

The worst kind of blasphemy is to think God is behind all your hurt and pain, that it is the heavenly Father disciplining you,

May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God and the patient endurance that comes from Christ. 2 Thessalonians 3:5 NLT 811.

They had relied on this illusion, perhaps beyond the realm of consciousness and perhaps needed it more than any other group in a forbiddingly competitive society “in which downward social mobility was a constant fear,” the historian David Roediger wrote. “One might lose everything, but not whiteness.

John Wilkerson put away his broom and sat down in the little janitorial office. Most janitors found their offices in the basement, but John, head janitor for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, had an office on the very top floor. The reason for this was simple; John Wilkerson was a janitor only when he was not performing his less official function of being a very special agent of the CIA.

And if a Christian would like to cure himself of being judgmental, all he has to do is look inside himself and be honest about his own inner struggles. That should keep us all from worrying about another’s spiritual condition.

There has to be a Quietness.....There is a Strength in Quietness.

How much time do I spend in front of that screen each night?” I wondered. “A couple of hours, at least. What would happen, Lord, if I sold that TV set and spent that time—praying?

We have a friend who used to commute by ferry between Staten Island and Manhattan, in New York City. The trip took nearly half an hour and could have been a frustration in a busy day. But this man, David Wilkerson, used the time on the boat for prayer in tongues. He would start off by thinking of all the things he had to be thankful for. In a reversal of Bob Morris's sequence, he would review them one by one in his mind, in English, praising God for each one. Bit by bit, inside him, he would feel a mounting sense of joy. He was conscious of being loved, being taken care of. He began to glimpse pattern and design in all that was happening to him. And suddenly, in trying to express his gratitude, he would reach a language barrier. English could no longer express what he felt. It was simply inadequate for the Being that he perceived. It was at this point that he would burst through into communication that was not limited by vocabulary. His spirit as well as his mind would start to praise God. Inevitably, by the time David reached the Manhattan pier, a transformation had taken place. He was built up in body and in spirit. He felt emboldened, ready to tackle impossible tasks, invigorated and refreshed, ready to meet whatever the day had to offer. And this was often important, for David Wilkerson is a youth worker among street gangs in the New York slums--a job that brings him into contact with teenage dope addicts, child prostitutes, young killers and some of the most discouraging and intractable problems in the world today.

— DAVID L. COHN, God Shakes Creation

By adulthood, researchers have found, most Americans have been exposed to a culture with enough negative messages about African-Americans and other marginalized groups that as much as 80 percent of white Americans hold unconscious bias against black Americans, bias so automatic that it kicks in before a person can process it, according to the Harvard sociologist David R. Williams. The messaging is so pervasive in American society that a third of black Americans hold anti-black bias against themselves.

It’s all too easy to imagine that the Third Reich was a bizarre aberration,” wrote the philosopher David Livingstone Smith, who has studied cultures of dehumanization. “It’s tempting to imagine that the Germans were (or are) a uniquely cruel and bloodthirsty people. But these diagnoses are dangerously wrong. What’s most disturbing about the Nazi phenomenon is not that the Nazis were madmen or monsters. It’s that they were ordinary human beings.

High levels of everyday discrimination contribute to narrowing the arteries over time,” said the Harvard social scientist David R. Williams. “High levels of discrimination lead to higher levels of inflammation, a marker of heart disease.

David L. Cohn, in the 1935 book God Shakes Creation, wrote that, for a colored man without a white sponsor, “his fate is in the lap of the gods.

GOD Knows about it all.

1973; a warning they did not heed. David Wilkerson’s 1973 book, “The Vision” speaks of a severe earthquake that he sees in the future for America: “I believe it is going to take place where it is least expected. This terrible quake may happen in an area that’s not known as an earthquake belt. It will be so high on the Richter