Winkie Pratney (1944 – Present) is a youth communicator, Christian apologist, writer, and evangelist from Auckland, New Zealand. According to his website: “After more than three million miles of global travel and having spoken to hundreds of thousands face-to-face and multiple millions via radio and television, Winkie has wide experience in motivating leaders, ministers, educators and young people.”1
Below are many of his popular quotes that I pray will bless you on your walk with the Lord.2
“Many say they can’t get God’s guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.”
“God does not do business with people who do not mean business with Him.”
“The only difference in death between a Christian and one who is not is that the Christian is ready to meet Jesus. A Christian is dead already – dead to the world, but alive to Christ. Death for you as a child of God is to fall asleep in His arms and awake in the other world, alive forever beyond the power of pain, safe forever from all sickness and suffering.”
“A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God’s will.”
“Faith is a record of great risks taken.”
“Those that God used in the past were just ordinary people with an extraordinary Master. They were not all champions of great faith, but little people who saw their own need, and put their small faith in a great God.”
“Love is proportional to hurt. God is love, so He is enormously grieved by our sins.”
“Every Christian a missionary; every non-Christian a mission-field.”
“God is looking for willing hearts… God has no favorites. You do not have to be special, but you have to be available.”
“Many do not recognize the call of God simply because they have never taken the time to really talk with Him long enough to know what He is like.”
“Preach from the rights of God rather than the needs of man.”
“No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God’s secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.”
“Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.”
“No other work of man in any language even faintly resembles the intricate structure and design of the Bible. The fact remains – only an infinite mind could have devised this Book of books.”
“God has guarded His Word so that only the pure in heart can see its secrets. All other efforts will fail.”
“God does not guide those who want to run their own life. He only guides those who admit their need of His direction and rely on His wisdom.”
“Unless you have a rock-solid commitment to truth, the Bible won’t change your life – it will only be so many words in a sea of words.”
“Revival is the ultimate mirroring and accurate portrayal of the heart of the Father.”
“You know, many of the Eastern thought forms use Scripture. That’s because the book is so powerful – you can’t ignore it. If you don’t use it, you can’t capture people’s hearts. God has built life into His Word, and all the strong cults rip it off – steal bites out of the Bible and use it…Just the fact that pieces taken out of context are powerful enough to draw men’s hearts should tell you what the whole Word, used under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit can do!”3
2 All of these quotes (except the last one) are from the website below:
Inspirational Quotes by Winkie Pratney (bibleportal.com)
3 “The Holy Bible-Wholly True” by Winkie Pratney. Copyright 1979, 1984. Last Days Ministries.