Fred Pric
"If it be thy will or thy will be done- if you have to say that, then your calling God a fool. What they told me to do was that whenever I prayed I should always say, 'The will of the Lord be done,' Now, doesn't that sound humble? It does. Sounds like humility, it's really stupidity. I mean, you know, really, we insult God. I mean, we really do insult our Heavenly Father. We do; we really insult Him without even realizing it. If you have to say, 'If it be thy will or Thy will be done' if you have to say that, then you're calling God a fool because he's the One that told us to ask."
(Fred Price, “Ever Increasing Faith” TBN November 16,1990)
"Do you think that the punishment for our sin was to die on a cross? If that were the case, the two thieves could have paid your price. No, the punishment was to go into hell itself and to serve time in hell separated from God Satan and all the demons of hell thought that they had Him bound and they threw a net over Jesus and they dragged Him down to the very pit of hell itself to serve our sentence."
"God can't do anything in this earth realm except what we, the body of Christ, allow Him to do."
(Fred Price, Ever Increasing Faith, TBN May 1, 1992)
Fred Price, for instance, teaches that Romans 10:10 is a "formula" and that anybody "Could put anything in there you want--healing, your needs met, new job, car, home, whatever you need."
"If you need a crutch or something to help you get along, then praise God, hobble along until you get your faith moving to the point that you don't need a crutch."
(Fred Price, "How Faith Works," page 92-93)
"Medicine is not God's highest or best. There is a better way when you know how to use yor faith. When you have developed your faith to such an extent that you can stand on the promises of God, then you won't need medicine."
"Your minimum days should be 70 years, that's just the bare minimum. You ought to live to be at least 120 years of age. That's the Bible. God out of his own mouth--in the Old Testament--said the number of your days shall be 120 years. I didn't write it! God said it. The minimum ought to be 70 years, and you shouldn't go out with sickness and disease then."
"The only reason people die before their time is because they do not undersrtand how to exercise their faith according to the Word to prevent death, or they choose to die before their time."
"Children that are born dead had no control over their life, but their parents had that control. However, if the parents do not know the Word of God and to claim their rights in Christ, the child suffers the loss."
"I have watched people die, and my heart went out to them, but their faith was not developed, and it couldn't bring the healing to pass, and they died. It wasn't the will of God that they die, but their faith wasn't sufficiently developed"
(Fred Price, "Faith, Foolishness, or Presumption?" page 94)
“Most employers at least have enough common decency about them that they don't ask somebody to work for them for free.... If a man has enough nicety about him to do that, can't you at least believe that the Father God is not asking you to serve Him for free either?”
(Free Price, "Faith, Foolishness, Presumption," page 7)
"If the mafia can ride around in Lincoln Contintal town cars, why can't the King's Kid's?"
"King's Kid's ought to ride Rolls Royces."
“Yes! You are in control! So, if man has control, who no longer has it? God.”
"'If it be Thy will' is a badge of doubt."
"If you put, 'if it be' on the end of a petition prayer, it will not be answered.
"I believe the 'Lord's Prayer' is not for Christians today."
"Somewhere between the time He [Jesus] was nailed to the cross and when He was in the Garden of Gethsemane--somewhere in there---He died spiritually. Personally, I believe it was while He was in the garden."
"The apostles were business men they were rich men had plenty of money, I'm going to show you that Jesus was a wealthy man had plenty of money and see all of that completely foreign to us from a traditional point of view."
(Fred Price, Ever Increasing Faith, TBN November 23, 1990)
"Jesus and the disciples were rich, only rich people could take off for 3.5 years."
(Fred Price, Ever Increasing Faith, TBN November 23, 1990)
"How can you glorify God in your body, when it doesn’t function right? How can you glorify God? How can He get glory when your body doesn’t even work? And the Bible says you're body is the temple. He lives, the Holy Spirit lives in your body. What makes you think the Holy Ghost wants to live inside of a body where He can’t see out through the windows and He can’t hear with the ears? What makes you think the Holy Spirit wants to live inside of a physical body where the limbs and the organs and the cells do not function right? You don't want to live in a house with a leaky roof. You don't want to live in a house where the toilets are running over on the floor. You don't want to live in a run-down, broken-down house where the electricity doesn't work and the wires are hanging out of the wall. You'll get if fixed because you say this house can't function rightly unless everything is functioning as it was designed to function. How do you think, then, that God can get the glory out of your body when your body is the temple where God lives and what makes you think He wants to live in a temple where He can’t see out of the eyes, and He can’t walk with the feet, and He can’t move with the hand? Because the only hands He has in the earth realm are the hands that are in the body. The only eyes that He has that are in the earth realm are the eyes that are in the body. If He can’t see out of them then God’s gonna be limited. He's not going to be helped."
(Fred Price, "Is God Glorified Through Sickness?”)
"The thing that redeemed us was not Jesus being nailed to the cross. His Spirit and soul went into Hades and He walked in through the door of Hades, Satan was seated on His throne with a sickening grin on his face, his lip twisted in grotesque triumph, and all the imps of hell were dancing a jig. And the word came 'We got him now! We've defeated the plan of God.' And the devil was sitting there saying 'I told you if you'd follow me I'd lead you to victory. We got him now!' And they wrapped their grimy hands and the chains of hell itself around Jesus and they consigned Him to one of the cells in the Hades section of the underworld. And then Satan and his demon hosts went on a three-day drunk. They thought they had Him. They had defeated and thwarted the plan of Almighty God and Jesus sat there, as it were, immobile, not saying a word, not doing anything except serving out sentence."
(Fred Price, "Identification")
"When I first got saved they didn't tell me I could do anything. What they told me to do was whenever I prayed I should always say 'The will of the Lord be done.' Now doesn't that sound humble? It does. It sounds like humility. It's really stupidity. I mean, you know, really, we insult God. I mean we really do insult our heavenly Father. We do. We really insult Him without even realizing it. If you have to say 'If it be Thy will,' or 'Thy will be done,' if you have to say that, then you're calling God a fool because He's the one that told us to ask, and if He was going to do His will anyway, why would you need to ask Him to do what He's already going to do. And how could you, by asking, change what He's already going to do. So if He's going to do whatever He wants to do anyway, if He's gonna give you whatever He wants you to have anyway, then what's the point of asking? I'm going to get what God wants me to have anyway. So what's the point? So then that makes prayer a farce - at least petition prayer - a farce. It would make "ask and you shall receive" worthless. If God's going to give me what He wants me to have, then it doesn't matter what I ask, I'm only going to get what God wants me to have. So that's an insult to God's intelligence."
(Fred Price, Ever Increasing Faith show, 11/19/1990)
"God the Father cannot do anything in this earth realm without permission. Now, again, I realize that that statement is very - as I say, from an evangelical point of view, which is - when I say that, that just simply means taking into account the main, major denominations that we're familiar with down through the years. That's the evangelical church world - that this statement that I'm making, that God can't do, is like, is like me going out and committing adultery to them. It's sin. Sinful to say that."
(Fred Price, Ever Increasing Faith, 5/1/1992)
"You can talk about me all you want while I'm driving by in my Rolls Royce that's paid for and I got the pink slip on it. Talk all you want. Bad mouth all you want. Don't hurt me in the least. Doesn't bother me. It's a whole lot easier to be persecuted when I'm riding in my car and I got the pink slip than it is when I'm riding in a car and owe my soul to the company store."
(Fred Price,Ever Increasing Faith, 3/29/1992)
"You are suffering because you are stupid!"
(Fred Price, Quoted in Crenshaw, Man as GOD, 156)
Despite telling his followers that he doesn't allow sickness in his home, Price's wife has been treated for cancer in her pelvic area.
“Kenneth Hagin has had the greatest influence upon my life of any living man...his books...revolutionized and changed my life.”
(Fred Price, taped correspondence, February 18, 1982)
“Now this is a shocker! But God has to be given permission to work in this earth realm on behalf of man....Yes! You are in control! So if man has control, who no longer has it? God.....When God gave Adam dominion, that meant God no longer had dominion. So God cannot do anything in this earth unless we let Him. And the way we let Him or give Him permission is through prayer.”
“If you keep talking death, that is what you are going to have. If you keep talking sickness and disease, that is what you are going to have, because you are going to create the reality of them with your own mouth. That is a divine law.”
(Fred Price, Realm, pg. 29)
"If you've got one-dollar faith and you ask for a ten-thousand-dollar item, it ain't going to work. It won't work. Jesus said, "according to your faith," not according to God's will for you, in His own good time, if it's according to His will, if He can work it into His busy schedule [see him mocking God and mocking the concept of God's will]. He said, "According to your faith, be it unto you." Now, I may want a Rolls Royce, and don't have but bicycle faith. Guess what I'm going to get? A bicycle."
“The whole point is I'm trying to get you to see-to get you out of this malaise of thinking that Jesus and the disciples were poor and then relating that to you thinking that you, as a child of God, have to follow Jesus. The Bible says that He has left us an example that we should follow His steps. That's the reason why I drive a Rolls Royce. I'm following Jesus' steps.” (Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 346. Fred Price, "Ever Increasing Faith," TBN December 19, 1990)
"Yeah, God has pleasure in the prosperity. So he must have displeasure in the poverty. So if he does, then poverty couldn't be from God. Yeah, but Brother Price, but God allows it. God lets it happen. You're right, he does. He does, because you do. He can't do anything about it."
(Fred Price, Ever Increasing Faith 11/16/90)
"The Bible says that He [Jesus] had a treasurer-a treasury they called it 'the bag,' that they had one man who was the treasurer, named Judas Iscariot; and the rascal was stealing out of the bag for three-and-a-half years and nobody knew that he was stealing. You know why? Because there was so much in it, He couldn't tell. Nobody could tell that anything was missing. If He had three oranges in the bottom of the bag and he stole two of them, don't tell me He wouldn't know that some was missing. Beside that, if Jesus didn't have anything, what do you need a treasury for? A treasury is for surplus. It's not for that which you're spending. It's only for surplus-to hold it until you need to spend it. Therefore, He must have had a whole lot that needed to be held in advance that He wasn't spending. So He must have had more than He was living on."
“If you keep talking death, that is what you are going to have. If you keep talking sickness and disease, that is what you are going to have, because you are going to create the reality of them with your own mouth. That is a divine law.”
(Fred Price, Realm, pg. 29)
“When you have developed your faith to such an extent that you can stand on the promises of God, then you won't need medicine. That's the reason I don't take medicine.” While he says we don’t allow sickness in his home."
(Fred Price, "Is healing for all?" Pg. 20)
"If them animals belonged to, if those animals belonged to God, how come God didn't give them their names? Why did he leave it up to a puny man to give them the names to the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom, and the vegtable kingdom? Because they belonged under the control of Adam and not of God...Why? He had dominion. Not God, Adam."
"Do you think that the punishment for our sin was [for Jesus] to die on a cross? If that were the case, the two thieves could have paid your price. No, the punishment was [for Jesus] to go to hell itself and to serve time seperated from God."
"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law, that the blessing of Abraham might come upon us...How did God bless Abraham? With cattle, gold, manservants, maidservants, camels, and asses. Abraham was blessed materially."