Voices and influences
Oral Roberts
A stuttering Oklahoma teenager healed of tuberculosis who put healing meetings on television and built a university out of them.
Summary
This site quotes Oral Roberts 1 times across 1 book, and lists 0 works.
- Lived 1918 to 2009, American.
- Quoted here most in Matthew: 1 of 1.
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Oral Roberts
- Lived
- 1918 to 2009
- Nation
- American
- Tradition
- Pentecostal Holiness
1 of 1 quotations
Own words
Quoted at 50 words or fewer, because Oral Roberts's works are in copyright.
“Faith is the meeting ground between your limited self and your limitless God.”
Matthew 8:8 The centurion answered, “Lord, I am not worthy to have You come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes Oral Roberts 1 times across 1 book.
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The life, in order
The life told as one accountfrom this site's record
Oral Roberts grew up poor in Oklahoma, stuttered badly, and collapsed with tuberculosis at seventeen; he said he was healed at a tent meeting his brother drove him to, and that both the disease and the stutter left him. He preached for a decade in small Pentecostal churches, then in 1947 started the tent campaigns that made him famous, praying for people one at a time in the prayer line for hours. He was the first to put such meetings on television, which brought him a national audience and a permanent stream of critics. He built a university in Tulsa that won full accreditation, and in 1968 joined the Methodist church, taking his kind of ministry into the mainline. His late years brought the failures too: a medical center that closed under its debts, and a 1987 television appeal saying God would call him home if the money did not come in, which even friendly observers called a mistake. He died in 2009 at ninety-one.
1 quotation across 1 book