David Wilkerson Quotes

• 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 don’t have the patience to learn.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Age, Computer

  Tags in Internet

• Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx – and miracles began to happen.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Preached

• America is a giving nation and very compassionate.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassionate

• As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Faithfully

• Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Daughters

• Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World

• Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Heart

• Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Responsible

• From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith

• God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in God, History

• Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Children

• How quickly we forget God’s great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in God

  Tags in Great

• I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Ministry

• I believe in walking in the Spirit.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe

• I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Published

• In these times, God’s people must trust him for rest of body and soul.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in God

  Tags in People, Time

• Likewise today, 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.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in God

  Tags in Believe

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

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Feel

• Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They’re burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Problem

• My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers’ conferences.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conference

David Wilkerson (28)

Birth:	19th May, 1931
Death:	27th April, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Clergyman

About

David Ray Wilkerson was an American Christian evangelist, best known for his book The Cross and the Switchblade. He was the founder of the addiction recovery program Teen Challenge, and founding pastor of the non-denominational Times Square Church in New York.

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