David Wilkerson Quotes

The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

God uses his Word, people and circumstances to mold us. All three are indispensable for character development. God's word provides the truth we need to grow, God's people provide the support we need to grow, and circumstances provide the environment we need to grow.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Man's soul is strengthened by suffering.

We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

As in nature, as in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones their lustre; the more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, their God has no end in view but to perfect His people's graces. Our Father, and and kindest of fathers, He afflicts not willingly; He sends tribulations, but hear St Paul tell their purpose, - "Tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope."

In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.

Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.

It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.

God grinds the axes he intends to use.

If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.