D. W. Wilson Quotes

We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.

If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.

Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.

It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.

If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

God works as long as His people live daringly; He ceases when they no longer need His aid.

It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.

If JESUS cannot control you, HE cannot save you. And if HE cannot control ALL of you HE cannot control any of you.

While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance.

Whom God would use greatly He will hurt deeply.

For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.

The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14)

Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.

The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know

My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.

Worship is why we are born and why we are born again.

Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any

Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.

Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.

Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by radical amendment of life; not before.

Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days!

What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform.

Oh, if we would only remember who God is!

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

Many things about our salvation are beyond our comprehension, but not beyond our trust.

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

We are not revived because we sing; we sing because we are revived.

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.

We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.

Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?

The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.

God is looking for men in whose hands His glory is safe.

Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory.

The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known.

Man must choose his world

We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.

There cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later two completely free wills must collide.

It is possible that we can get so busy doing work 'for' the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.

Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.

May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears!

A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure?