Revival Quotes

• If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Want, Reverence, Word Of God

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.145, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Moving, Spirit

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• The purpose of revival is to fire the church with divine energy for her divine assignment. Revival will tear us away from our temporal pursuits to give ourselves for what really matters.Revival will not occur without prayer. Prevailing prayer is always antecedent to revival.

  David Shibley

  Prayer, Fire, Giving

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• Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Spring, Heart

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Prayer, Powerful God

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• Every true revival from that day to this has had its earthly origin in prayer.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Very True

  "The Power of Prayer and the Prayer of Power".

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• Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Giving Up, Humility, Desire

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• Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display. We want an exhibition; God is looking for a man who will throw himself entirely on God. Whenever self-effort, self-glory, self-seeking or self-promotion enters into the work of revival, then God leaves us to ourselves.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Men, Self, Effort

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• The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Keys, Discovery

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• When God gets ready to shake America, He may not take the Ph.D. and the D.D. God may choose a country boy ... God may choose the man that no one knows, a little nobody, to shake America for Jesus Christ in this day, and I pray that He would!

  Billy Graham

  God, Christian, Country

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• Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Passion, Spirit, Gods Will

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• The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Religion

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• Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.

  Henry Blackaby

  People, Love Relationship, Return

  Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby, Claude V. King (2009). “Fresh Encounter: God's Pattern for Spiritual Awakening”, p.15, B&H Publishing Group

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• Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Practice, Sound Doctrine, Return

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• In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Heart, Religion, Church

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• Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

  John Wesley

  Giving, Heaven, Desire

  John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”

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• Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. Each generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate harvest.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Church, Next

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• God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Men, Light

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• When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God.

  Henry Blackaby

  Spiritual, People, Profound

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• Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.

  Vance Havner

  Saint, Normal, Christianity

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• In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they
  could not get back to their homes. Men and women would fall by
  the wayside and would be found hours later pleading with God to
  save their souls. They felt that they were slipping into hell and that
  nothing else in life mattered but to get right with God... To them
  eternity meant everything. Nothing else was of any consequence.
  They felt that if God did not have mercy on them and save them,
  they were doomed for all time to come.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Fall, Home, Men

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• No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Fashion, Prayer, Passion

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• Our mistake is that we want God to send revival on our terms. We want to get the power of God into our hands, to call it to us that it may work for us in promoting and furthering our kind of Christianity. We want still to be in charge, guiding the chariot through the religious sky in the direction we want it to go, shouting "Glory to God," but modestly accepting a share of the glory for ourselves in a nice inoffensive sort of way. We are calling on God to send fire on our altars, completely ignoring the fact that they are OUR altars and not God's.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Mistake, Nice

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• A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Falling In Love, Jesus

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• If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Jesus, Religion

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