Branham Quotes - Y - IndexYou can't doubt or misplace one word of God that's THUS SAITH THE LORD every Word be so"
You can't have the mind of Christ and the mind of the world at the same time. You can't be in your way and God's way at the same time. You have to get out of your own way to let God have His way. That's the only way you're ever going to do anything. You got to get away from your own thoughts, your own reasons. Don't try to reason; just believe"
Your thoughts are louder in the heavens than your voice is on the earth." He knows what you're thinking. You might say you do this and you do that, but ,you see, down in your heart, if you think different, you're doing something wrong. You should be just what you are"
You call for revivals, you wait for your church to have a revival. Well, that ain't—that ain’t the revival for you. The revival ought to begin right in you, when you begin to thirst for God. There might not be another member, of the church, wanting that revival. If it breaks out in you, it will break out other places"
You can never get a true look at Jesus Christ and ever remain the same. There's something about Him that's different from all other men
You may laugh too much. You may shout too much. You may eat too much, but you'll never pray too much"
You know a living sermon is better than one being preached. Live me a sermon is lots better"
You will have to love one another before you can love God"
You know they used to say that the devil went out of fashion, but he didn't go out of business. That's right. He's still in business, and he's just so much shrewder now than he used to be; in the ways that people get shrewd he does too; and he just slips in right in"
Your morals testify of your faith"
You’re bound to have friends. But watch what kind of friend you have. If that friend's following Christ, go with that friend. Follow Christ too. But if it don't, don't do it"
You're always scared it's not going to happen. That's the reason it don't happen. When that fear... Love casts out fear. When you got love, fear is gone. But as long as you got fear, love cannot operate. You cannot walk by faith with a question mark in your mind."
You can’t – must never try to get anything from God without first being right with God"
You know there's something about getting alone to yourself. Many people never pray until they come to church. Many people thinks that the only place to pray is at church, but the Bible said for men to pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands"
Ye are not of the world, little children. You are of heaven. This is not your home"
You might eat too much; you might drink too much; you might laugh too much; you might walk too much; but you'll never pray too much"
You know, the real Christian way is to hide everything you can from a brother. Don't tell his bad things; just tell his good things. Just tell what you know about him that's good. If anything's bad, let it alone. The poor fellow's got enough against him anyhow. Don't try to take a pole and shove a man further into the ditch. The Christian attitude is to pick him up and take him out of the ditch. See? Don't never try to shove him down; he's down already. Try to help him up"
You know, a sheep don't have but one thing to offer, and that's wool. And now, he's not asked to produce or to manufacture some wool for this year; he's asked to--to bear wool"
You might refuse the toxin of the doctor, and you might go ahead and live an ordinary hour, week, or two, or--and die and go on. You might do that, you might shorten your days. But if you refuse God's toxin you'll die eternally. You'll be completely separated from God and mercy for eternity"
You that have been truly baptized into the Holy Spirit, and you have the Token to display, you have a right to every redemptive blessing that God promised. Everything that He promised is yours. Hold your Token over your unwavering faith as you pray, and over his Word"
You take a man that's talking about drinking all the time. He talks about drinking; he thinks about drinking; he drops right down into that category, becomes a drunkard. A man that's always thinking about vulgar things; he looks at vulgar things; he thinks of vulgar things; he reads vulgarity..."
You keep your mind on Christ; He's the one to keep your mind on, not on your pastor. Love your pastor and respect him; he's a honorable man, a man of God, truly. But keep your mind on Christ and your affection set on Christ. Just respect him as what he is, as a reverend, because he represents God to you"
Your actions prove what you are. You can say you got It, but your actions speak so loud that they can't hear your voice. Your life speaks what you are"
Your testimony sometime is all right, but your life speaks aloud, you know, your testimony don't do much good. That's right. Your life is what counts"
Your life will bear witness. I don't know what your testimony is, but your life speaks so loud, your voice can't be heard. What your--your living, your every day life will testify what you are"
You've heard the old story, "Your life speaks so loud, I can't hear your words." So whatever you are, you are. The life that you live shows what kind of a spirit is in you"
You can't play with God"
You have to take me for what I tell you, and I have to take you for what you tell me. And if--and if we cannot trust one another... Then if my word's no good, then I'm no good"
You're responsible, just as I am responsible. We're all responsible. We're responsible for the death of Jesus Christ, every one of us, until we've accepted Him as personal Saviour, then work for Him with all of our heart. If God has given us something to do, we fail to do it, then God will require it at the end of the day"
You never get nothing by arguing"
You can't help being what you are. Even if you're a sinner, you're not responsible for being a sinner. You're responsible for remaining a sinner. There is a way prepared for you. But to be a sinner, you was borned that way" "
You’re responsible for spreading the Light; you're not responsible for them receiving the Light. You're responsible to take it to them, but you're not responsible for their reaction"
You can't get warm today by the sun that shines yesterday. That's what's the matter with the churches today. That's what's the matter with the people; they're trying to live by what happened yesterday"
You can't warm by a painted fire. Certainly not, it has no heat in it. Yesterday's sun has no heat in it"
You know, they have never been able to scientifically get a--find a better way for a baby to get what he wants besides crying for it. You know, they can't educate him to grunt. And they can't educate him to talk that quick. But you know how he gets it? He just takes God's provided way for it. He cries for it, yells, and kicks, and screams till he gets it. See? That's right. That's the only way, is cry for it. They can't find a better provided way than God's provided way. That's right. Just let it go"
You're a Christian when you are born again and filled with the Holy Ghost, not until that, and you're yielded completely to the Spirit. If you're not yielded to the Spirit, then you're not borned again and you don't have the Holy Ghost. You might speak in tongues and shiver, and jump and run, and do all kinds of..."
Your life will impress your children, and have--influence your children by the example you set before them"
You are not right until you are borned again. You're not mentally right until you have been borned again"
You cannot have fellowship with the world and with the Holy Spirit at the same time. You've got to abstain from the things of the world, live clean, honorable, upright, and holy, then the Holy Spirit will dwell with you, and will work with you, and will perform miracles through you, and will heal you, give you joy, peace, and love, and long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, matienc--patience, and faith" "
You're sons and daughters of God, heirs of the Kingdom. Right now we are kings. Claim your legal rights. Don't let Satan press anything on you. You're of God. And he's has got no rights to hold it"
You might've lost your health. You might've lost your fellowship. Take Him at His Word. Be certain that He's God. The gloomy times that's looking now may not look so gloomy if you'll just take His Word and be certain that He's God"
You can't impersonate love. You've got to have it. It's got to be a product that God has given you. It's not what you imagine. It's something God had done"
You’ll never isolate yourself and get anything from God, 'cause we're won't--we've got to not imitate, impersonate. You've got to have it"
You let people know that you love them. There's something about it. You can't fool the people. It was Lincoln, one time, said, "You can fool part of the people part of the time, but not all the people all the time." You've got to have it. You can't impersonate it. You've got to have it"
You have got to love men. You can't just bluff it. You've got to have it, or your colors will show somewhere. See? That's right. You have really got to love people, and they know you love them. See, there's something about it"
Your name don't make what you are. It's your character that makes you. Your character molds you and makes you what you are"
Your works will prove what your character is. Your character is known by the works that you do. "
You men, here you are. Any man that'll let his wife smoke cigarettes, and wear shorts, shows what he's made out of. He's no man. He ain't got an ounce in him, a Son of God, the head of the house. That's right. Now, you know that's the truth. It shows what you're made out of"
Your character; that's what God's a looking at"
Your name associates what you're... It has an impression upon your character"
Your character molds you to what you are"
You see people that were noble people, but yet you were always glad to get away from them. It's just they--they create such an atmosphere around where you are. Nothing against them, they're nice people, but you just don't like that atmosphere they--they are--they're in. And their character creates whatever they are, makes them what they are"
Your mind makes your character"
You can't mix oil and water. It just won't mix. You can churn it up and down, do anything you want to; it won't mix"
Your character will not mix with the world, if you are being molded in the form of God, by letting the mind that was in Christ be in you. That's the control tower, the direction"
You know, God trains every child that comes to Him. And the Bible said, "Every son that cometh to God must be chastened of God." And if we cannot stand chastisement, then we're not children of God; we become illegitimate children"
You're talking so much today about juvenile delinquency. I believe it's parent delinquency. I believe that's where it's at"
You are a creator yourself, a miniature creator"
You got an old sheet there, just as dirty as it can be, full of ink and everything else. Nothing can take it away. You dip that down in a can full of Clorox, or a tub, bring it back out, it's just as white as it can be. That's what the Blood of Jesus Christ does to the believer that confesses his sin"
You cannot govern the world by the rules of God. You can't"
You’re getting self-righteous. See? God has to give you a little something once in a while to kinda meeken you up a little, you know (That's right.), kinda make you realize that He's the Boss"
You, poor, deliberated, backslidden, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, how are you ever going to see a miracle until you become one? Glory. A miracle of God's grace to take an unbelieving doubter and fill him with the Holy Ghost"
You're bound to be backsliding constantly, so it takes a constant prayer to God. Paul said, "I die daily." And if Paul had to die daily, how much more am I going--I'm going to have to stay there dead all the time, if--if Paul had to die daily to stay right with God. And so, we'll all have to do that, just die out to ourself. And that's getting God's way"
You’ll just stay in your calling. Don't try to get somebody else's calling. Stay in your own calling. If you're a housewife, remain a housewife. Whatever God's called you to do, just remain there. He knows where to put His hand on you and use you"
You ought to always consult to Lord before you do anything"
You're just as important until you get out of your place, and then you're no good at all, you--you're--you're a hindrance to--to these men, and you're a hindrance to yourself and the Kingdom of God. Stay in your position. See? Stay what God made you (See?) and then you'll operate right"
You can never make yourself something that you're not. See? You're born in this world sovereignly by God with different things to do. You take a man that wants to be a preacher and goes off to get himself an education. He will never make a preacher. He might make a lecturer, but preachers are borned. God calls preachers. That's right. See? And you might try to be a singer and you set up and squeak tenor for four or five hours every day, or something there like that, you'll never make a singer. Singers are born. That's right"
You must believe what you ask for. If you are a believer, recognize yourself as a believer. Recognize that these things are for you. If there's condemnation in your life, straighten that first"
You're a Christian. You have rights to any redemptive blessing that Jesus died for you for. It's all yours. It's already paid for; you just have to believe it, not imagine it; but believe it, and know that it's yours, and you can possess it. Oh, that's the conquering faith"
You'll never figure God out, so you might as well forget about it now. You've got to believe it. God is not known no other way but by faith. You have to accept it"
You stay right loving and sweet and kind to one another"
You can be haphazard about anything else, but when it comes to your eternal destination, you better be very sure. See? Just keep that on mind: very, very sure. Don't take no chance at it"
You don't see crows and doves dwelling together, because they don't have no fellowship. They don't have things in common. The crow can fly on a dead carcass and eat it. And... But the dove will go to the wheat field and eat the grain" "
You people who are claiming to be Christians, separate yourself from the things of the world. Have nothing to do with the world. Shun it. For some person is watching you. Somebody is watching you. And you're going to not only stand yourself there, but going to take them to the bad place, and you're going to have to answer for your influence"
You begin to feel secure. Be careful. That's when you get lifted up. Then when God sends something, you can't accept it anymore, because you've already witnessed to this thing. Then you begin to feel secure. That's the time that you're on your road to your fall. "
You say, "I'm Pent..." I ain't saying what you are. I'm asking your character. We're going below these little things that you're looking at. We're going on the inside of you"
Your present character, where would you be at? Now, that's right where you'd been. Whatever you are right now, that's just what you'd have been back there. That's exactly, clearly cut. Oh, my"
You can't mix oil and water. It just won't mix. You can churn it up and down, do anything you want to; it won't mix. And your character will not mix with the world, if you are being molded in the form of God, by letting the mind that was in Christ be in you. That's the control tower, the direction"
Your form, your shape, and what you're in now, is just a negative, when you come up to the--around twenty, twenty-two years old. You were a negative, and death develops the picture to the positive, that when this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting. See?"
You may have hindrances, but if you've got faith, it knows no defeat; it's positive"
You believe God and say you believe God, and haven't received the Holy Spirit, there's something wrong with your faith"
You know, you can't manufacture nothing. You're not asked to manufacture anything. The church is not asked to produce or to manufacture fruit. You're to bear fruit. See? You couldn't say to a sheep, "Manufacture wool." Just let him become a sheep and he'll bear wool. That's what the trouble of it is; we try to manufacture something. Don't manufacture it. Be... Just get the inside right. Could you imagine a black bird setting up there and putting peacock feathers in his wings and saying, "See, I'm a peacock." He's trying to put something in that never growed from the inside out. And we're finding too much of that among our Pentecostal groups. Let's be real, genuine, borned again Pentecostals. I say now it's the only thing that I've ever found this side of heaven that give me the assurance that my sins are gone, and I am borned of the Spirit of God. Then you have something, an anchor in you, that holds"
Your very life proves what you are. What you are... As I said in the beginning, what you are somewhere else is what you reflect here. What you are, what your celestial or terrestrial body is up yonder, what your celestial body is somewhere else is what you're reflecting back here. In the spirit land, what you are, is what you are here. If you're still vulgar minded and so forth in the spirit land, you're vulgar minded here. If you still got malice, envy, and strife, you're in the spirit land with that, it reflects back here. But if your whole innermost being has become cleansed and purged, it shows that you've got a body out yonder waiting, that's been cleansed and purged, and it's reacting back in the flesh. Don't you see? See, there it is. "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting"
You know that no one will be in the RAPTURE without the Holy Ghost"
You can't impersonate love. You've got to have it. It's got to be a product that God has given you. It's not what you imagine. It's something God had done"