Oral Roberts (1918-2009) was an influential American Christian televangelist and charismatic healing evangelist. Renowned for his healing ministry, he claimed the ability to heal through prayer and gained fame through large tent revivals and televised broadcasts. In 1963, Roberts founded Oral Roberts University (ORU) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, aiming to integrate Christian principles with academic education. Throughout his career, he faced both admiration and criticism for his faith-healing practices and fundraising efforts. A key figure in the Charismatic and Pentecostal movements, Roberts played a significant role in popularizing modern spiritual gifts. His legacy persists in the continued operation of ORU and his lasting impact on evangelicalism and Christian higher education. Roberts passed away on December 15, 2009.
Oral Roberts Quotes
1. “Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.”
— Oral Roberts
2. “God is a good God, and the Devil is a bad Devil.”
— Oral Roberts
3. “Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!”
— Oral Roberts
4. “The important thing is not the size of your faith – it is the One behind your faith – God Himself.”
— Oral Roberts
5. “Faith is not something you have to get. It’s something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That’s when your healing starts!”
— Oral Roberts
6. “God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.”
— Oral Roberts
7. “Your faith begins to move, to act, when the power of God supernaturally empties you of doubt and fills you with a knowing. You come into a state of knowing that you know that you know. In that instant you cannot doubt.”
— Oral Roberts
8. “ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able and willing to innovate change in all three basic aspects of your being – the intellectual, the physical and the spiritual.”
— Oral Roberts
9. “Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time – she’s my balance.”
— Oral Roberts
10. “Well, I can’t figure out God.”
— Oral Roberts
11. “Keep on learning the Word, keep listening to the Holy Spirit, who is in you, and continue to preach as you re now until God’s time comes. Just remember to obey God and stay small in your own eyes, and God will bless the world through you.”
— Oral Roberts
