David Wilkerson Quotes

• The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Ministry

• The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Women

• The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Greatest

• Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Time

• Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nation

• Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Ministry

• Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Finances, Ministry

• Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Orphanages

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

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conference

• 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

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

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Feel

• 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

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

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in God

  Tags in People, Time

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

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Published

• I believe in walking in the Spirit.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe

• 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

• 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

• Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Children

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

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in God, History

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

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith

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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