David Wilkerson's Quotes
Born: 1931-05-19
Profession: Clergyman
Nation: American
Biography of David Wilkerson
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.
Tags: America, Children, MenOur 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.
Tags: Faith, Money, ThreeThe 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.
Tags: Men, Teen, TrainingLove is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
Tags: LoveHow quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
Tags: Forget, God, GreatRiches 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.
Tags: Evil, Life, TimeAs 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.
Tags: Pain, Trials, TrueMany 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.
Tags: After, Love, StressChrist died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.
Tags: Christ, Died, LostLikewise 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.
Tags: Die, God, TodayOur 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.
Tags: Change, Nation, WickedEvery 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.
Tags: America, Challenge, TeenAlso, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.
Tags: Happen, Miracles, StreetsGod has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.
Tags: God, History, NameOur ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.
Tags: Debt, Free, MinistryA 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.
Tags: Age, Learn, PatienceThe 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.
Tags: Humble, Teen, WomenEighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.
Tags: Heart, Holy, TimesI have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
Tags: Message, Write, WritersMy oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.
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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.
Tags: Fear, Greatest, HappenI 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.
Tags: Father, God, TeenAmerica is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.
Tags: America, Else, NativeAnything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and White waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.
Tags: May, Someone, WaitingI mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.
Tags: Father, Mother, ParentsIt was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.
Tags: Black, Together, TruthMany immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.
Tags: Children, Home, PainMiles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.
Tags: Able, Country, ParentsThat's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They didn't look back, and they often didn't tell their children about it. They didn't want to talk about it. It was too painful, what they'd gone through and the caste system of the South, which was Jim Crow.
Tags: Away, Children, TalkThere are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have existed - it simply would not, because Berry Gordy, the founder of it, his parents had migrated from Georgia to Detroit where he founded Motown, and where did he get his talent?
Tags: Great, Parents, TalentWell, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the great migration. It's that massive. Many of us owe our very existence to the fact that people migrated.
Tags: Fact, Great, MeetWhat I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.
Tags: Family, Great, Love