65 Inspirational Holy Spirit Quotes by Smith Wigglesworth

Smith Wigglesworth, a prominent British Pentecostal evangelist in the early 20th century, had a powerful and influential ministry, especially known for his faith in the Holy Spirit and healing miracles. His teachings on the Holy Spirit emphasized the necessity of a deep, personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and the role of the Spirit in empowering believers for both holy living and supernatural ministry.

Here are a few key aspects of what he taught about the Holy Spirit:

1. Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Wigglesworth believed in the importance of the baptism in the Holy Spirit, which he often equated with a powerful, transformative experience that would empower believers to live victorious Christian lives and perform miracles. He emphasized that this experience was distinct from salvation and would enable believers to receive gifts like speaking in tongues, prophecy, and healing.
2. The Holy Spirit’s Power: He taught that the Holy Spirit is the source of all power for Christian life and ministry. Wigglesworth frequently spoke of the Spirit’s role in healing, miracles, and bringing the Word of God to life in a personal way. He often stated that the Holy Spirit should be sought and honored as the true source of all power in the believer’s life.
3. Living in the Spirit: Wigglesworth emphasized living under the direct influence and guidance of the Holy Spirit. He encouraged believers to develop a sensitivity to the Spirit’s leading, particularly in moments of prayer and ministry. He often said that one should be “full of the Spirit,” describing this as a continual state of surrender and yielding to the Spirit’s work.
4. The Holy Spirit and Faith: According to Wigglesworth, faith is closely linked to the Holy Spirit. He taught that without the Holy Spirit’s empowerment, faith would be ineffective. He often linked the presence of the Spirit with boldness and unshakable faith that could move mountains.
5. Speaking in Tongues: He was a strong advocate of speaking in tongues, considering it a vital sign of the Holy Spirit’s baptism. He saw speaking in tongues as a way to edify oneself and to build a stronger relationship with God.

Wigglesworth’s life and ministry were marked by a continual emphasis on the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit. He often used phrases like “You can’t have the power of the Spirit without a deep, personal relationship with Him,” and “The Holy Spirit is a person, not a force.”

In summary, Smith Wigglesworth’s teachings on the Holy Spirit were rooted in the belief that the Holy Spirit is essential for every believer’s empowerment, for living a victorious Christian life, and for performing the works of God on earth. His life was a testimony to this belief, as his ministry was marked by miracles, healings, and prophetic insights.

65 Inspirational Holy Spirit Quotes by Smith Wigglesworth

1. I would rather have the Spirit of God on me for five minutes than to receive a million dollars.
2. I’d rather have the anointing of God for 10 minutes than to own the whole world with a fence round it.
3. I refuse to use a gift unless the Holy Ghost manifests His power to bring the gift through.
4. Anyone can be ordinary, but a person filled with the Holy Spirit must be extraordinary. The people looked to him for something new, something out of the usual run of things, and they were not disappointed.
5. If the Spirit does not move me, I move the Holy Spirit.
6. God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.
7. God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.
8. The plan of God for your life is that you should be held captive by His power, doing that which you in the natural world would never do, but that which you are forced to do by the power of the Holy Ghost moving through you.
9. The Spirit reveals, unfolds, takes of the things of Christ and shows them to us, and prepares us to be more than a match for satanic forces.
10. I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.
11. There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives.
12. It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.
13. A man filled with the Holy Spirit is no longer an ordinary man.
14. I am here to help you to begin doing mighty acts in the power of God through the gifts of the Spirit. The man who is filled with the Holy Spirit is always acting. Jesus had to begin to do, and so must we.
15. You don’t tarry for the Holy Ghost. He has already been given; He is here.  You don’t tarry; you receive.
16. Turning for a moment to Jesus’ attitude in the Holy Spirit, I would like you to see a plan there. In Acts 1, we find that Jesus began both to do and teach (v. 1); the believer should always be so full of the Holy Spirit that he begins to do, and then he can teach. He must be ready for the man in the street. He must be instantly ready, flowing like a river. He must have three things: ministration, operation, and manifestation, and these three things must always be forthcoming. We ought to be so full of the manifestation of the power of God that, in the name of Jesus, we can absolutely destroy the power of satan.
17. When our temples are purified and our minds are put in order so that carnalities and fleshly desires and everything contrary to the Spirit have gone, then the Holy Spirit can take full charge.
18. The Holy Spirit is not a manifestation of carnality.
19. If you deal in the flesh after you are baptized in the Holy Spirit, you cease to go on.
20. When the Holy Spirit comes into your body, He comes to unveil the King, to assure you of His presence. 
21. The Holy Spirit is coming to take out of the world a Church that is a perfect bride. He must find in us perfect yieldedness, with every desire subjected to Him. 
22. When the Holy Spirit comes, He will reveal things to you. Has He revealed them yet? He is going to do it. Just expect Him to do so. The best thing for you is to expect Him to do it now. 
23. We must be careful not to choose, but to let God’s Holy Spirit manage our lives; not to smooth down and explain away, but to stir up the gift and allow God’s Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God’s mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.
24. Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Spirit. Get down and pray for power.
25. I believe that God wants to put His hand upon us so that we may reach ideal definitions of humility, of human helplessness, of human insufficiency, until we will rest no more upon human plans, but have God’s thoughts, God’s voice, and the Holy Spirit to speak to us.
26. God longs intensively for unhindered communication and total response between Him, and the believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
27. Many Christians think that they are obedient because they do not overtly sin by disobeying the rules – the do’s and don’ts. But this is not all there is to it. We must realize that God, the Holy Spirit, is ever waiting to guide us, to draw us away from the distractions and sinfulness of our surroundings just to bring us into fellowship with Him.
28. If you want to increase in the life of God, then you must settle it in your heart that you will not at any time resist the Holy Spirit. The Holy Ghost and fire – the fire burning up everything that would impoverish and destroy you.
29. As we are filled with the Holy Spirit our one desire is to magnify Him. We need to be filled with the Spirit to get the full revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ.
30. Divine life is full of Divine appointment and equipping, and you cannot be filled with the power of God without a manifestation. It is my prayer that we would understand that to be filled with the Holy Spirit is to be filled with manifestation, the glory of the Lord being in the midst of us, manifesting His Divine power.
31. Possess patience to such an extent that you can suffer anything for the Church, for your friends, for your neighbors, or for anyone. Remember this: we build character in others as our character is built. As we are pure in our thoughts, are tender and gracious to other people, and possess our souls in patience, then people have a great desire for our fellowship in the Holy Spirit.
32. The Holy Spirit takes it for granted that you are finished with all the things of the old, like when you become a new creation in Christ.
33. Every day the child of God must be moved more and more by the Holy Ghost. The child of God must come into line with the power of Heaven so that he knows that God has His hand upon him.
34. God wants his people ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.
35. I am on the plan of daring, acting in the Holy Ghost.
36. Some like to read the Bible in the Hebrew. Some in the Greek.  I like to read it in the Holy Ghost.
37. Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance.  You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.
38. Repeat in your heart often baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire, fire, fire! All the unction, and weeping, and travailing comes through the baptism of fire, and I say to you and say to myself, purged and cleansed and filled with renewed spiritual power.
39. When you receive the Holy Ghost you receive God’s Gift, in whom are all the gifts of the Spirit.
40. God wants to purify our minds until we can bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things. God dwells in you, but you cannot have this Divine power until you live and walk in the Holy Ghost, until the power of the new life is greater than the old life. 
41. Wherever the Holy Ghost has right of way, the gifts of the Spirit will be in manifestation; and where these gifts are never in manifestation, I question whether He is present. 
42. The secret for the future is living and moving in the power of the Holy Ghost. 
43. When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in operation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin, death, disease, or whatever it is. I can pray in the Holy Ghost, and that prayer is effectual to bring down every stronghold of the enemy.
44. The plan of God for your life is that you should be held captive by His power, doing that which you in the natural world would never do, but that which you are forced to do by the power of the Holy Ghost moving through you.
45. There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives.
46. Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Ghost, get down and pray for power.
47. It is an insult to ask God for power after you have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You have power! You have to ACT!
48. These times of waiting on God for the fullness of the Spirit are times when He searches the heart and tests the mind. 
49. If we see the truth as clearly as God intends for us to see it, we will all be made so much richer, looking forward to the Blessed One who is coming again. Here we are, face-to-face with the facts. God has shown us different aspects of the Spirit. He has shown us the pavilion. 
50. Praise is God’s sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life’s activities.
51. Be filled to overflowing with the Spirit. We are no good if we have only a full cup; we need to have an overflowing cup!
52. Jesus was totally yielded and obedient to the Father, and therefore, God did not give the Spirit by measure to Him. God’s Spirit was upon Him without limit, and He moved in unlimited power. Jesus showed us by His example, the way to walk in power.
53. I am all Pentecost.
54. We must move away from everything that pertains to the letter. All that we do must be done under the anointing of the Spirit.
55. There is something about believing in God that makes God willing to pass over a million people just to anoint you.
56. When I catch the first breath of the Spirit, I leave everything and everybody to be in His presence, to hear what He has to say to me.
57. It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.
58. Be filled with the Spirit, be crammed with the Spirit, so filled that there will be no room left for anything else. What is the advantage of such a life? We can only feel what reaches the central realm of consciousness.
59. The Spirit reveals, unfolds, takes of the things of Christ and shows them to us, and prepares us to be more than a match for satanic forces.
60. Pentecost came with the sound of a mighty rushing wind, a violent blast from Heaven! Heaven has not exhausted its blasts, but our danger is we are getting frightened of them.
61. There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; the second is that the Spirit possesses you.
62. Never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.
63. The Lord will allow you to be very drunk in His presence, but sober among people.
64. If you want to know the mind of God, you must have the Holy Ghost to bring God’s latest thought to you and to tell you what to do.
65. When the power of the Holy Ghost is present, things will happen.