Branham Quotes - I - IndexIn unity there's strength. So therefore I said, "Certainly, if that's the way the church wants, if that's what God is wanting, He's got more of authority to vote amongst a whole group of people than He has to me, because I have no vision to say that it shouldn't be. So we throw in with the church, and move with the church. And I'm behind it to do all that I can (See?), to help out the church. That should be the motive of every Christian and every person in the church is for to unify ourselves and stick together"
If you believe that I've told you the truth, and the truth is in the Bible that Jesus is the Son of God, and He sent me, just His servant to help bring the Church of the living God together in unity..."
If we can only get in spiritual unity with His Word and with Him. God will reveal Himself. He always does that. On the road to Emmaus, after the resurrection, it was only when Cleopas and his friend begin to speak to Him, and the Scriptures was quoted, and the God in Christ revealed Himself to them."
If you're in Him, you're in the Word"
I got lots of respects for a man, when he does make a mistake, he's got courage enough to rise and try again. We're all going to make mistakes. The best makes mistakes"
If Christ is in the heart, then no matter how much you disagree with the man, you still got love for him and respect"
If someone talks about you, and you talk back about them, God can't fight your battle; you're fighting it yourself. Just let loose and let Him do it. And just commit it to Him"
If we are going to live as Christians, we have to be in HIS Spirit"
If fear is no good at all, no value in it, let's discard the thing altogether. And let's have faith and believe God"
It has to be the Spirit of God with us, too, or all our efforts are in vain"
I become a Christian to fight, fight the good fight of faith. I become a Christian to get in the battle line. We are Christian soldiers, and we got to be trained, and brought up, and know all the techniques of the enemy, to know how to fortify, to know how to--to fight the fight"
If there's anything that makes Christians lazy, it's when they're on a flowered bed of ease. We don't have it persecution enough. We don't have it hard enough. Always at the chain is the strongest at its weakest link"
If a man ran in here, he might be black, yellow, brown, ragged, if he's got a check for you for a bank draft for a million dollars, you wouldn't care what color he was or how he was dressed. It's the message he has for you"
If you speak anything different than what you really are, it becomes hypocrisy"
In many things of life we are given a choice. The way of life itself is a choice. We have a right to make our own way, choose our own way that we want to live"
If we see something wrong in our brethren, let us just pray and keep it before God and love that man till we bring him right into the Presence of God. That's the way, really the way to do it"
If you want to see what is coming, look at what has been"
I want to be corrected. I want the Holy Spirit to correct me in things that I'm doing that's wrong. I don't want nothing substitutionary"
I want the real thing or nothing, just let me alone, don't let me have anything at all"
If you say you are a believer, and then act contrary to what you say, then you're not a believer"
If God's ordained you to do something, then He's your Protection. See, He will protect you. If He's sent you, He'll back up your word. You're an ambassador then"
If You’re going to be a Christian, put everything that you’ve got to Christ, that’s, your time your talent, your everything"
It's dangerous to refuse the doctor's medicine, you know, if you--if you're going to him. And it's afraid of... If you refuse the medicine, it's danger. You may die. But that--that, you'll just die physically, from not taking the doctor's medicine. But how much more dangerous is it to refuse God's inoculation from sin"
If you take a man, no matter how good he tries to be, if his works are evil, all his goodness won't mount to nothing"
I think that today the reason Christianity has become to the people, a nut, is because that we've got a bunch of reproductions and not genuine Christians, a bunch that has to be babied and sprayed and in order to stay in the church"
I'd rather face heaven as an infidel than a hypocrite. I'd take my chance better, I believe, in heaven as a--as an infidel than to be a hypocrite"
If you testify for Jesus and say He's the Saviour, you live like that, 'cause people's going to expect it out of you. That's right. You live like a Christian ought to"
If the man's wrong, love him anyhow. Don't partake of his sins. See? Don't partake of his sins, but in sweetness--not in sourness and rebuke--in sweetness tell him of the hope of Life that rests within you through Jesus Christ being revealed to you by the Holy Ghost"
If you want something to happen... Now, you'll have to take my word for this. If I'm planning on doing something, I know better than to tell anybody about it. Not that that person will tell it, but Satan will hear it. See? He can't get it in my heart there, as long as God's got it closed up with the Holy Spirit, so it's between me and God. See? He don't know nothing about it until you speak it, then he hears it"
It's always in the weakest moments, when it looks like the true message is about defeated; that's when God steps in"
I'd rather be just a little over zealous about the Father's Kingdom than to have no zeal at all for it. I'd rather overwork"
It depends on where your faith stands. Your salvation is good as long as your confession is good. But when your confession drops, then your salvation's gone. For He is a High Priest setting at the right hand of God to make intercessions on your confession, that's what happens"
If you and I leave without Jesus, we're going to get in trouble too. The devil is going to set a trap for us just as soon as we get out from under that shelter of His protection. If there's a question in your mind on anything, don't do it. Any time there's a question, you're wrong. Stop it"
If you're a housewife, or if you're a preacher, or a deacon, or whatever you are, in the sight of God we're all the same. We're just children. Each one has a job to do, and let's do it with all of our heart"
It's what's in the kid, the makeup of the kid, what's on the inside of you. And what you are now is what you're probably be the rest of your life. You're on a changing spot"
If it's a question in your mind, leave it alone. For anything you don't do by faith is sin. That's right. Got to be by faith. So how can you smoke and have faith? See, it's right in your own conscience shows you that you're wrong. So if it's uncertain, you better leave it alone, 'cause that might be the one thing that keeps you out of the Kingdom of God"
If there's a question in your mind, don't you do it at all. Anywhere there's a question, stay away from it. Then you see, then you're absolutely living by faith if there's no question. If there's a question, then leave it. Don't go around it at all"
If there's a question in your mind, there's got to be an answer somewhere to answer back to that question"
I would rather die a sinner than to die a hypocrite, or a deceiver. I believe I would have a better chance, if there would be a chance after death, which I do not believe there is"
If you won't accept the truth, it'll become darkness, and you'll walk in darkness"
If you won't accept Light, the Light will put your eyes out, and you'll walk in darkness"
It’s better to be an infidel than a hypocrite"
If there's anything I never want to meet God, I'd rather meet Him a sinner, than a hypocrite, for I'd be lost either way. But I don't want to stand outside of being a sinner, and then be a hypocrite with it. I'd rather go and get out of the way. I want to be sincere"
I'd rather have a drunkard with me any day than a liar (See?), a liar"
If one of you brethren would make a mistake and do something's wrong, which you're subject to do it; I am too, every one of us. But as we go along, let's remember we're brothers; we are brothers. And if we've got any fighting, let's fight with one another. Bring it together. Bring it before our brethren and settle it"
It's not necessary that any man would go to hell. And God don't send no one to hell. You send yourself to hell. God's done everything in the world He can to keep you from going to hell. And He let's you determine to go to hell. You fight over every barricade God puts in your way; you just go right on over it. "I don't believe in this. And I don't believe in that. And I don't believe in this"
If you got something against somebody, your brother, don't tell somebody else about it if it's wrong, go to him and tell him. And then if he's going to argue with you, then take somebody else with you. Then bring it up the way the Bible said"
I think, even we have too much practice on sermons and not living enough sermons. It'd be a lot better if we lived our sermon; each one of us would be a minister. It's better to live me a sermon than preach me one"
I don't care how long you been in church, and turn you loose the world; if you still can go out and do the things you once did and enjoy it, it shows you've never come to God"
If you fail, you fail by yourself; you just get away from the Word. But as long as you stay with the Word, It can't fail. For the word of the prophets did so-and-so, how much more will the Word of Christ be?"
If you've made a mistake. Some woman made a mistake, some man made a mistake, some boy, girl made a mistake, don't sink. Scream out in despair, "Lord, save me or I'll perish." Get desperate about it. God will hear you. He always hears a desperate soul. That's what I'm trying to tell you about"
It's not we ourselves as ministers; we are not the Gospel. But we are only transmitters that transmits the Voice of God through our agency of man to the hearer"
If I can't get them out of kindergarten, how am I going to teach them algebra?"
If they don't know abc, how am I going to teach them algebra? If they don't know kindergarten, don't know how to behave themselves, don't know how to look, and act, and dress, and be decent, how you going to teach them prophetic things?"
It's strange how that God will lead His children right into traps sometimes wheelchairs, sometimes with heart attacks, sometimes... He leads His children. Why? To see what they'll act, see what a reaction they'll have on an action, see what they'll do"
I don't try to say, "Lord, let me see how close I can go." It's, "Lord, keep me as far away as I can get." See? Just stay as far away as... Remember, you are still human beings. See?"
If you are a Christian, if you're a borned again Christian, you don't mean to do wrong. Your intentions and everything is right. But if you do, as she said here, make a mistake and do something wrong, will God let you just go on and go on and die like that and be lost, or will He bring you back to reconciliation? He will bring you back. That's right. He will bring you back"
If you do anything wrong, it don't condemn you and you go on like that, on out, remember, you wasn't saved at the beginning"
If you believe It to be the power of the enemy, then you receive his reward. If you receive It as the power of God, then you receive His reward"
I'm talking about humility, genuine humility, not something that's put-on, something that is, that's real humility"
If it would be a humility to the president of the United States to come to your home, yet the King of Glory, the Lord Jesus, comes down to the poorest man in the country, to the bootlegger, to the drunk in the street, to the immoral woman, to the disobedient child; to whosoever that He can come to and knock at his door, Jesus comes and knocks"
It doesn't even sound sane to do such a thing, to turn down the Son of God Who's coming, not to take something from you, but to save you from destruction, and then is turned down"
I think it's a good thing that we put every effort we can before our children as godly parents. Make an example, be an example"
I've often wondered why that people want to take a substitute for salvation, when the skies are full of the real. Why would you eat out of a garbage can when a nice clean table's set and ready for you? It shows there's mentally something wrong"
If you will walk in God's way, there's plenty of Holy Spirit"
I find two classes of people. One of them is the fundamentalist; the other one is the Pentecostal. And the fundamentalists positionally know their place, but they haven't got much faith with it. And the Pentecostal has got plenty of faith, but don't know who they are"
I believe that every Christian is obligated to be a missionary. I believe every Christian is obligated. Now, not so much as you have to go over in the old countries and preach or something. But if you can't go, you can help send somebody else"
If I'm going to be like Jesus, I've got to have virtue and a pass that it can pass forward from me to the people, because virtue went out of Him to the people: virtue"
If we disbelieve willfully after we have a knowledge of the truth, there is no more sacrifice for sin. Think of it. No matter what you're thinking in your heart, the Token can never be applied. If you reject it the last time, then it cannot be applied, he--for he that sins or disbelieves willfully"
It seems like there's not even men anymore. You see men wearing pink shoes, and preachers on the pulpit, something like that. That's a disgrace"
If He's never give you the baptism of the Holy Ghost yet, then He hasn't confirmed your faith that you say you have. But the Token is a confirmation"
If everything serves God's purpose, it's got a resurrection. But it can only rise if it serves God's purpose. If a flower lives and is not germitized, it will not rise again. If you plant corn and it is not germitized, it will not rise again"
If Jesus is coming, let's act like it, and talk like it, and live like it, and be like it"
If we're Abraham's Seed, then let's act like it. Amen"
If we're expecting Christ to come... Do you believe that? Well, if we do it, let's act like it"
If you're a daughter of a King, then don't act like the world. If you're a son of the King, don't act like the world"
If I told you I had the--the spirit of some famous mechanic, you'd expect me to know what was wrong with your car if I looked at it. If I told you the Spirit of Christ was in me, I must act like Jesus. You must act like Jesus. Your character and conduct must be molded like that"
I'd rather have somebody be honest with me, wouldn't you? That's right. I want somebody honest"
It's your character, your conduct that gives God confidence in you"
It’s been said that your life speaks so loud that I can't hear your testimony. So therefore, to live a sermon would much better, than to preach one. The life you live, shows what character you are, because your life always builds your character" "
It takes a surrendered heart that God can make love. You don't know the Bible half as good as the devil does. So what good would it do you to...?"
I believe that Your character identifies You"
I'm wondering today just what's happening. Are we really getting the people to God, or are we just getting them to church? We must get them to Christ, where this quickening power"
It's good to go to church, sure. If that's as far as we go, it's not far enough. When you come to church, that's good; but go on to Christ from the church; because we must receive this quickening power if we ever expect to be in that general resurrection, because it's the only thing that will ever bring us from the dead"
I don't care what it is. See? If it's against God's Word, be against it. That's your enemy. Anything that's against the Word is your enemy. Everything that's for the Word is your brother. He's a part of you"
I'm going to shock you a little bit. You don't mind, do you? All right. For instance, the meat's a frying, and all at once the grease pops out on your hand. Now, if you'll just shake it off and go on frying meat, it wouldn't bother you. Now, I know you didn't get that just right. Look. The first thing, "Oh, where the Ungantene?" Something... You see, grab you hand. See, see? It scares you to death. That's what does it. It's fear"
It’s the attitude of the people that brings the results"
It's the atmosphere what brings the results"
In every age it was the same cry. Hear what the Spirit says. If you are a Christian, you will get back to what the Spirit is teaching, that is, the Word of this age. Every messenger to every age will preach that Word. Every fresh and true revival will be because men have gotten back to the Word for their age. The cry of every age is the rebuke, "You have left the Word of God. Repent, and come back to the Word." From the first book in the Bible (Genesis) to the last book (Revelation) there is only one reason for God's displeasure--leaving the Word; and there is only one remedy to regain His favor--back to the Word"
It's not juvenile delinquency; it's parent delinquency. It's because that the parents has neglected. And a whole lot of it is the way the church never preached it. What's the matter, brethren? Get back to the Gospel; preach old-time holiness and get it into the church again. We must have a standard"
I've been privileged of speaking practically to every nation under the heavens. I've seen all kinds of gods and all kinds of religions, but there's none of it true but Christianity. It's the only one. Even nature itself, it speaks for Christianity"
I think there's five Gospels. You only know four of them in the Bible. But it's Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and mother. Mother gets them when they're young. She ought to start them right there before they know anything about Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John"
It isn't the kids that needs the whipping, it's papa and mama, for letting them do like that. That... It isn't juvenile delinquency; it's parent delinquency. And I think a lot of pulpit delinquency, for they just let them get by and say nothing about it, when there it is in the Word"
It's all right for you to respect men and love them as your brother, but don't never put the love of anybody in your heart like you have of God, or before God. Keep Him first. Love one another"
If we should have, any revelation should be presented to us that's contrary to the written Word, then we should never receive it, because that's exactly what Satan did to Eve. She had the Word, but she was hunting for some new light; and Satan seen to it that she got it. So we never want to add anything to the Word, or take anything from the Word; but just leave it the way it is. Stay right with the Word, for anything contrary is unbelief"
I have nothing against a sinner drinking. I have nothing against a sinner committing adultery, nothing against the sinner doing this. But what I'm talking about is these people who are supposed to be Christians and then doing that"
If a pig wants to stick his snout in the manure pile and eat all day, that's his business, 'cause he's a pig to begin with. But the lamb doesn't do that. The sinner, he's a pig to begin with. But then when you try to make a lamb out of a pig, you have to have a conversion and he has to come into a different atmosphere. And when he comes into the atmosphere his desires will change and his nature will change. That's the way it is today"
If you want to see a miracle, become one. Let God work on you first. He's got some overhauling to do, some different lenses to put over your eyes, because you're blind, dead in sin and trespasses, spiritually blind, double dead. That's right. God has to give you Life, touch your eyes so you can see, perform a miracle, and make you a miracle, and then you can see the miracle-working God. That's the first thing"
I tell this one thing, Christian people, don't worry about anything, just as long as God goes with you, everything else will just fall right into it's place, and just--it'll--it'll be--love"
If I had one--one thing that I could say to the people tonight, any commandment to keep, just love one another; love the Lord Jesus, and everything will be all right. Just keep in love"
If I was a doctor, and you came to me and you said, "Oh, doctor, I've got a terrible headache. It comes all the time, every day, and I just can't get rid of it." And I'd give you a handful of aspirin, say, "Go on." or give you a hypo just to knock the headache, I'm not much of a doctor. No, I'm not. What I am, I'm just only trying to get rid of you, get you out of the office, or something on that order"
If you're a son of God, you're measured by your character"
I want you to notice. Every man that ever has the spiritual revealed truth of the will of God, makes preparation for the fulfilling. I hope that goes way down deep tonight, way down on the fifth rib, on the left side”
If there's sin in your life, confess it as sin. Tell God you're sorry of it"
If you're hungering and you're thirsting, satisfy your thirst with Christ. And make Christ your God. Don't turn around and drink from these old stagnated cisterns"
It's a change, a conversion. "Convert" means to "change" anything. And except a man dies out to himself and say, "Lord, I don't know nothing about it. Just take me in." Amen. Then God will do it"
I cannot be sanctified within myself; I am sanctified through Jesus Christ Who stands in the--in the Presence of God in my place. It isn't my holiness; it's His holiness. My holiness won't work at all, but His does. Because God done accepted Him. And in accepting Him He had to accept me, because I'm in Him. Amen. That's what makes it real isn't it. Then we don't have to depend on ourself. Now, that doesn't make us say we can sin. Brother, if you sin, you're just--you're just away from God. That's all. There's only one thing to do, is confess it and get right with God. As long as you desire to sin, the desire of sin's still in your heart, then it's time to stay down at the altar till that thing's taken out"
It'll never do you any good, no matter who you prayed for, till you make that right. Condemnation's in your heart, and God will not come into that heart condemned. See? God don't dwell in that; you got to make it right. Then when you do, you must have faith. If everything's right, you must have faith and believe it. Don't be afraid"
If we lived in a perfect faith of a Christian, to what we are, we'd be a mystic to the world; the people wouldn't understand you. You'd walk in the Spirit. What the Spirit said, you would do. What It forbid, you'd not do. Then the people begin to say... They... And you'd be a--a mystic person to them. That's the way it is to all believers; they're a mystics. The people don't understand, because they live in a world to themselves"
If you love the Lord, just not trying to dodge hell, but you love the Lord, then you have faith in God (See?), if you love Him"
If the church believes that we should not gamble, then that member should never touch a deck of cards. We don't believe in drinking; he should turn his head completely from drinking. If we do not believe in gambling or smoking, the member of this church should never touch such a thing. God gives complete deliverance"
If someone is down, let's pick him up, help him. Now, that makes us a unified group of believers. Now, when we don't obey that, then we don't obey God and we displease God"
If a member makes a mistake, don't turn him down; help him, raise him up, get together, have a hearing with one another. That's what the Scripture said"
If you've wronged somebody, make it right. You can't bring that under the Blood; it won't stay. You can't bring it. Something won't let you do it"
If a man thought we had a--a call in his life, what would happen? They'd send him to Bob Jones, or somewhere, or some of the great schools, and give him the highest type of education he could get. That's the worst thing they could do. That's the worst thing that could be done. When a man says, "I'm a Ph.D., LL.D.," that just puts him way away from God to me. See? God don't, is not all them things there. God is simple, humble"
Is the Life of Christ in you? Don't take no chance, friend. Don't, don't, don't, do that. It's going to be... When you--when death strikes you, it's too late then. Don't do it. Please don't"
If you're not positive, don't take no chance"
It isn't how close you can come, and how well you think you're fortified. Stay just as far away from sin as you can stay. Just get just as far away as you can. Say, "I can do this. There's no harm in doing this." Well, if there's a question in your mind, don't you do it at all. Anywhere there's a question, stay away from it. Then you see, then you're absolutely living by faith if there's no question. If there's a question, then leave it. Don't go around it at all"
If you did wrong, you paid for it, if you did right, God would honor it"
I think if we had people today, our churches who claim to be Christians, if they would abstain from the things of the world and live that kind of a life, it would influence the younger Christians to do so. But today when they let down, and drink, and smoke, and carry on, and still try to hold their confession as Christianity, that puts a bad stumbling block in other people's way. And it makes it very hard"
I think it behooves us tonight to think about that. For every man, woman, boy, and girl, knows that you're coming to the judgment. You might escape this, that, or the other. You might beat the income tax, and you might escape the Internal Revenue. You might do one thing or another. You might have run over the speed limit, and the cops never catch you. But one day judgment's going to get you. That's certain"
I hear so much today about God being a good God. He is. I'm not disputing that. He is a good God, but He's also a God of wrath. His holiness requires righteousness. His law requires judgment. If there is no judgment to law, law is of non-effect"
If I found a dollar, and it was a bogus, it's only a sign it's made off of a real one"
I think that's a good thing for us all to do. is go down to the house of God, go down and deliver your soul, get the thing off your mind"
If you lived in the days of Noah... Now, just think of what you are. Be honest with yourself, 'cause if you won't be honest with yourself you can't be honest with God. If you lived in the days of Noah and was in your present character, what group would you be identified with? Now, think of it"
If you were living in the days of Noah and in your present character, what side would you been on? Be careful. See? In your present character, now think of what you are, when the groups... What group would you be identified with if your present character would've been living in the days of Noah? Would you been with the prophet and God's a-vindicated Word, standing in the minority of the little group, or with the popular opinion folks of that day?"
In what state does your present character identify you now? "I wouldn't have nothing to do with them Pharisees. No, sir." Now, that's just a name to you. But what about the estate that you're in when you see Him today in His church just as He was then? Now, where would you be? History is repeating itself. Pharisees of that day stood against Him because of prejudice. And that's what's the matter today. The denominational world stands against truth of the Word because it's prejudice"
I don't care what you are. I'm asking you what's your present position, your present character? What--what--what's it doing for you? Where would you be identified?"
I'm not hurting your feelings, but you know I've always stood for it; I don't agree with women ministers, because it's not supposed to be that way. See? She's the weaker vessel. Now, we find that this woman was deceived by someone quoting her the Word, and just missed it a little bit. That's what caused all the trouble"
In the beginning was God. He wasn't even God then. No, a God's an object of worship. Only thing He was, was the eternal, and in Him was attributes. And those attributes were thoughts. And those thoughts was expressed to words, and word was made manifest"
In this Being, that we call God our Father, was attributes. In Him was attribute to be Father, in Him was attribute to be God, in Him was attribute to be Son, in Him was attribute to be Saviour, in Him was attribute to be Healer, and all these things that we see now is just displaying His attributes"
If you only can hold that in your heart, that God is here to give you the desire of your heart. If you'll meet His conditions, nothing can stand"
If you judge me right, I'll--I'll be either a Spirit of God or a spirit of the devil. You can't be two the same time. There's no black white birds; drunk sober men; sinner saints. You're either right or... You're either a Christian or you're not a Christian. It's either the Spirit of Christ, or not the Spirit of Christ"
It seems that people's lost their common decency and modesty. They're not like they used to be. It used to be when the prophet said THUS SAITH THE LORD, the people trembled. Yeah, they certainly did. The people moved, for they was afraid. But now they lost all their scare of it. They don't fear God"
Isn't it beautiful when you can really anchor your soul into Christ, in such a place till you can get quiet before Him, and hear His Voice speaking to you, "I'm the Lord that healeth thee. I'm the Lord that giveth thee Eternal Life. I love thee. I knowed thee before the foundation of the world. I put thy name upon the Book; thou art Mine. Fear not, it's Me. Don't be afraid; I'm with you." Then I sing"
If a person dies without the baptism of the Holy Ghost will he be lost? No, sir. If he's a believer he'll come in the resurrection, the second resurrection. If he's got the baptism, he'll go in the first resurrection. Now, you have to almost take my word. If that ain't satisfying, then you--you ask me; I'll give you Scripture for it. I'm trying to get just two or three more here, then we're finished"
I've found two wires that'll bring the visible power of God for Divine healing into the individual. That's two things I find. One of them is love. The other is faith. And they're sweethearts. And when love gets married to faith, love always accompanies faith. When you love God enough to know that He can't lie to you, it'll create a faith in there, that'll make you believe His Word, and every Word He said is positive Truth, and you accept It with an unadulterated faith that won't say no, it'll produce just exactly what He said It would do. The deep calleth to the deep. "Forget not all of His benefits. Who forgiveth all of thine iniquities, Who healeth all of thy diseases." In the church, God has set people in the church for different things"
I don't mean to use anytime, anything to throw off on people. If I do that, then I need to be at the altar. But it's to bring Gospel truth, to know this: that if you fail to tell the truth, God will require it at the pastor's hand. Then if it's off of the pastor onto the congregation, then the congregation will answer for themselves"