Quotes by Bruce Wilkinson

About Bruce Wilkinson:

Bruce Wilkinson is a Christian teacher and author. He was born (circa 1940) in New Jersey and graduated from Northeastern Bible College (B.A. and Th. B.), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th. M.) and Western Conservative Baptist Seminary (D.D.). He served as a college professor at Multnomah School of the Bible in Portland, Oregon, until resigning to launch Walk Thru the Bible in June 1976. He is best known for his best-selling (and, in some circles, highly controversial) book The Prayer of Jabez in 2000.
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Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you.

Bruce Wilkinson

The truth is, even those who think Dreams only happen to someone else carry a Dream hidden deep in their heart, just hoping it can come true.

Bruce Wilkinson

Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary of how God works with the specific things that He does, and we don't know how to align ourselves with what He is doing so that we can be His vehicle on the ea...

Bruce Wilkinson

People can't do miracles and are not responsible to do miracles, but people can pick up miracles from God and hand it to another person - a miracle happens when that occurs.

Bruce Wilkinson

When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can then deliver the miracle to the other person.

Bruce Wilkinson

To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.

Bruce Wilkinson

You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.

Bruce Wilkinson

Not everybody is going to agree with your dream. I'm sure you've had border bullies in your life as you moved into your career. And what we don't want to do is focus upon them.

Bruce Wilkinson

It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routines and recliners and 'usual' anything!

Bruce Wilkinson

I grew up on a dairy farm in Southeastern Connecticut, and I went into the Peace Corps right after college. I went to Ghana. I fell in love with Africa and have basically been working in Africa ever since.

Bruce Wilkinson

Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they'd be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.

Bruce Wilkinson

If you don't have a healthy workforce, you can't develop economically. And if you don't have a well-educated and healthy workforce, that is a huge constraint on your development.

Bruce Wilkinson

Ninety-nine percent of Americans have never had malaria, but I've been in Africa and have had malaria six times, so I can say now what it's like to get malaria, and it's horrible.

Bruce Wilkinson

Most of my career has been spent overseas in Africa or in Europe.

Bruce Wilkinson

Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.

Bruce Wilkinson

When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to find that topic in Scripture. I was shocked that after college and graduate school I had no idea that Jesus Christ had talked so much about...

Bruce Wilkinson

There is an economy in Heaven. There are cities in Heaven, and there are people who lead and people who don't lead, people who are rewarded and people who are not rewarded.

Bruce Wilkinson

Most people think that Heaven is a choir, and all you will do is sing.

Bruce Wilkinson

It's when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It's always beyond what you've ever done.

Bruce Wilkinson

If you want your dream more than you have to have people's affirmation, that's how you break through your border bullies.

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Author Bio

  • NameBruce Wilkinson
  • DescriptionAmerican evangelist
  • Born1940
  • ProfessionWriter