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Faith & Spirit Quote by Benny Hinn

"Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance"

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Benny Hinn’s line is a neat piece of televangelist triage: it sorts human suffering into two categories, then tells you which one deserves the microphone. Physical healing is framed as “temporal,” a short-term fix that dies with the body; soul-saving is “eternal,” the only investment that really pays. The intent is pastoral on the surface, but strategically it’s also brand architecture. If a healing claim doesn’t “stick” or a cure can’t be verified, the message still wins, because the real scoreboard has been moved off-camera and into eternity.

The subtext is a pressure valve for doubt. In charismatic healing cultures, unmet expectations can corrode faith: people aren’t healed, symptoms return, medical records don’t cooperate. By privileging salvation over healing, Hinn offers a theological escape hatch that preserves God’s power and the preacher’s authority. You might not walk away cured, but you can still be told you received the more important gift. That also subtly shifts responsibility: bodily outcomes are messy, but the soul is where consent, repentance, and loyalty live.

Context matters. Hinn rose to prominence in the late-20th-century charismatic boom, where spectacle and testimony functioned as proof. This sentence reads like a calibration of that spectacle after years of public scrutiny: a way to keep the emotional electricity of healing ministry while insulating it from the demand for measurable results. It’s persuasive because it dignifies vulnerability while quietly redefining success. In doing so, it asks listeners to trade the certainty of evidence for the comfort of meaning - and to keep faith with the only claim that can’t be audited.

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Hinn, Benny. (2026, January 17). Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/because-when-god-heals-a-body-that-is-temporal-73664/

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Hinn, Benny. "Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/because-when-god-heals-a-body-that-is-temporal-73664/.

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"Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/because-when-god-heals-a-body-that-is-temporal-73664/. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.

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Benny Hinn (born December 3, 1952) is a Clergyman from Israel.

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