Voices and influences
Smith Wigglesworth
Summary
This site quotes Smith Wigglesworth 10 times across 8 books, and lists 8 works.
- Lived 1859 to 1947.
- Quoted here most in Mark: 2 of 10.
Smith Wigglesworth
- Lived
- 1859 to 1947
- Tradition
- British Pentecostal
5 of 10 quotations
Own words
Quoted in full, because Smith Wigglesworth died in 1947 and these works are out of copyright. Each citation below names its edition and its year. A citation naming a modernised text means that edition makes its own editorial changes, and that edition's terms are not in this site's record.
Faith in the shed blood of Jesus. Faith in the fact that He took our weakness upon Himself, has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains, and that He is our life today.
Ever Increasing Faith, Chapter 5: "I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee", 1924
Isaiah 53:4–5 Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. BSB
Was Jesus willing? You will never find Jesus missing an opportunity of doing good. You will find that He is always more willing to work than we are to give Him an opportunity to work.
Ever Increasing Faith, Chapter 6: "Himself Took Our Infirmities", 1924
Matthew 8:2–3 Suddenly a leper came and knelt before Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. BSB
Today there are many children of God refusing their blood-purchased portion of health in Christ and are throwing it away, while sinners are pressing through and picking it up from under the table
Ever Increasing Faith, Chapter 4: "Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?", 1924
Mark 7:28 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” BSB
There is one special phrase to which I want to call to your attention, and shall not doubt in his heart. The heart is the main spring.
Mark 11:23 “Truly I tell you that if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and has no doubt in his heart but believes that it will happen, it will be done for him. BSB
He is still healing the brokenhearted and delivering the captive through those on whom He places His Spirit.
Ever Increasing Faith, Chapter 2: "Deliverance to the Captives", 1924
Luke 4:18–19 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes Smith Wigglesworth 10 times across 8 books, and 1 study draws on this voice.
This site’s own count of what it does with the voice
The life, in order
The life told as one accountfrom this site's record
Smith Wigglesworth (June 8, 1859 – March 12, 1947) was a British Pentecostal evangelist known throughout the 20th-c. evangelical world as "the Apostle of Faith." Born in Menston, Yorkshire, England to a poor working-class family, he worked from age six (pulling turnips) and later as a plumber's apprentice; he was illiterate well into adulthood — his wife Polly Featherstone-Wigglesworth taught him to read, using only the Bible as his text. He was converted at age 13 in a Methodist context; subsequently joined the Salvation Army for several years, attended Wesleyan-Holiness meetings, and was influenced by the Keswick Higher-Life and Plymouth Brethren streams. His decisive Pentecostal Spirit-baptism with tongues came in 1907 in Sunderland, England, under Alexander Boddy's All Saints Anglican parish-house meetings (a key early Pentecostal site in the British revival). After his Spirit-baptism, his preaching ministry exploded — he traveled internationally across the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, France, India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), and elsewhere with documented healing ministry that included roughly twenty raised-from-the-dead testimonies (per ministry-historical documentation), thousands of healings, mass conversions, and substantial congregational impact. His teaching was famously direct, faith-confrontational, and physically forceful in prayer-for-the-sick contexts. He was widely regarded across the early Pentecostal movement as one of the most-anointed healing voices of the era — peer to John G. Lake, Aimee Semple McPherson, Charles Parham, and the broader Azusa-Street-and-British-Apostolic-Faith generation. He died in 1947 at age 87, remarkably reportedly during prayer at the funeral of a close friend.
8 works
How to read this voice
Ever Increasing Faith
compiled 1924 from sermon transcriptions; multiple subsequent editions
Wigglesworth's signature compiled-sermons text. Standard early-Pentecostal-stream healing-and-faith curriculum. Continuously in print and freely available digitally.
10 quotations on this site
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Faith That Prevails
compiled posthumous; multiple editions
Companion sermon-compilation; develops the "only believe" framework across multiple ministry-application contexts.
Not quoted on this site yet
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Smith Wigglesworth on Healing
compiled posthumous from sermon transcripts
Concentrated healing-emphasis material. Standard reference for Wigglesworth's healing-prayer methodology and theology.
Not quoted on this site yet
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Smith Wigglesworth on Prayer, Power, and Miracles
Concentrates the prayer-and-power material across the catalog.
Not quoted on this site yet
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Sermons by Smith Wigglesworth
compiled posthumous; the title in Pastor Marc's audiobook library
One of two Wigglesworth titles in Pastor Marc's audiobook library; comprehensive sermon access.
Not quoted on this site yet
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Bold as a Lion
compiled biographical-and-sermon material; the second Wigglesworth title in Pastor Marc's audiobook library
Pastor Marc's principal biographical-and-sermon engagement with Wigglesworth.
Not quoted on this site yet
Smith Wigglesworth: Apostle of Faith
Stanley Frodsham, 1948
Foundational biography written by Frodsham (who knew Wigglesworth personally and edited Pentecostal Evangel); standard early reference for Wigglesworth ministry documentation.
Not quoted on this site yet
Smith Wigglesworth Devotional
multiple posthumous compilations, e.g., Whitaker House; Only Believe for Healing 90-Day Devotional
Daily-devotional access to Wigglesworth's sermon material; one of the most-circulated Wigglesworth-derivative formats.
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10 quotations across 8 books
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