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Quotations on what revival is:

"Revival is always extraordinary, beyond what we consider to be normal work of God" - Unknown.

"Revival is a season in the life of a Church when God causes the normal ministry of the Gospel to surge forward with extraordinary spiritual power … What sets revial apart is simply that our usual efforts greatly accelerate in their spiritual effects, … It's when God comes down to us" - Raymond Ortlund.

 "Revival was understood to refer to some special seasons wherein God doth in a remarkable manner revive religion among his people" Solomon Stoddard.

 "Revival is an extraordinary movement of the Holy Spirit producing extraordinary results" Richard Owen Roberts.

"Revival is that strange and sovereign work of God in which He visits His own peple, restoring, reanimating and releasing them into the fullness of His blessing" - Stephen Olford.

"Revival is the movement of the Holy Spirit bringing about revival of New Testament Christianity in the Church of Christ and it's related community" - J Edwin Orr.

 "Revival is God's invasion into the lives of one or more of His people in order to awaken them spiritually for Kingdom ministry. It s God's interaction with His people in order to energise them spiritually" - Malcolm McDow.

 "Revival is a sovereign and providential work of God in which God pours out His Spirit so powerful that it brings conviction even to the most stubborn and difficult unbelievers" - Norman Benz.

"Revival shapes the redemptive activity of the Holy Spirit throughout the Bible" - Robert Coleman.

 "It seems that revival is made out of highly combustible material and ignites all that it touches" - Unknown.

 "Revival is a sudden, deep realization of one's sin; breaking down all barriers between the Spirit of man and the Spirit of God. It shakes the souls of many a robust man to realize his resolve to fall down in front of the throne and weep his way to salvation" - Ivin Viljoen.

"In revival human personalities are overshadowed and human programs abandoned. Man retires into the background because God has taken the field" - Robert Coleman.

"Revival is a sovereign intervention of the Holy Spirit of God, the Spirit of Pentecost, powerfully sweping across the visible Church in blessing the normal ministry of the Word of God, and prayer, in the lives of both believers and new converts. It is best understood as an extraordinary intense season of blessing upon which is normal New Testament Christianity" - John Armstrong.

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Other revival quotes:

"Mercy is love in action." Leonard Ravenhill.

"Faith needs no crutches." Leonard Ravenhill.

"The Bible is never wrong!" Leonard Ravenhill.

"Jealousy is love gone sour." Leonard Ravenhill.

"Every mother is a career woman." Leonard Ravenhill.

"Cleansing is immediate - by the Blood." Leonard Ravenhill.

"Men give advice, God gives guidance." Leonard Ravenhill.

"The first requirement in prayer is to believe." Leonard Ravenhill.

"Many ask God for help. Few ask God for mercy." Leonard Ravenhill.

"It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross." Leonard Ravenhill.

"Every step you make in Jesus Christ enrages the devil." Leonard Ravenhill.

"Most Christians pray to be blest few pray to be broken." Leonard Ravenhill.

"God asks the best we have Because He gave the Best He had." Leonard Ravenhill.

"You see, God isn't training Boy Scouts. He's training soldiers!" Leonard Ravenhill.

"Great soul-winners have always been great lovers of men's souls." Leonard Ravenhill.

"My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list." Leonard Ravenhill.

"A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way." Leonard Ravenhill.

"If "Christ liveth in me" then I shall be very careful where I take Him." Leonard Ravenhill.

"There is a cost in discipleship-- God has no basement-bargain blessings." Leonard Ravenhill.

"No man ever did, or ever will do God a favor - God does all the favors." Leonard Ravenhill.

"The worst thing that God gives us is better than the best thing Satan offers." Leonard Ravenhill.

"If Christ is not worth everything you have, He is not worth anything you have." Leonard Ravenhill.

"You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict." Leonard Ravenhill.

"There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin." Leonard Ravenhill.

"God does not have to retract, revise, repair, or recall one word He has ever spoken." Leonard Ravenhill.

"The only people who want to change the Gospel are those who are unchanged by it." Leonard Ravenhill. 

"A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience." Leonard Ravenhill.

"A man is not to be judged by the height of his ambitions, but by the depth of his compassions." Leonard Ravenhill.

"Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life." Leonard Ravenhill.

"I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground." Leonard Ravenhill

"Christ cared enough for sinners to die for them. Do we care enough for sinners to live to reach them?" Leonard Ravenhill

"The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned." Leonard Ravenhill

"Too many of us want to make a peace treaty with Christ, but will not make a total surrender to Christ." Leonard Ravenhill

"Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!" Leonard Ravenhill

The law of spiritual progress goes like this: Process then crisis, followed by a process then crisis, ad infinitum." Leonard Ravenhill

"God owed us nothing - He gave us everything pertaining to life and godliness in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ." Leonard Ravenhill

"Just three words - IT IS FINISHED. The Greatest Words Ever Uttered By the Greatest Man That Ever Lived." Leonard Ravenhill

"The Christian has every right to tell God he wants to be a saint, but the Christian has no right to tell God how to make him one." Leonard Ravenhill

"What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?" Leonard Ravenhill

"There are two kinds of people in the world-- only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin." Leonard Ravenhill

"No vice, however horrendous, will keep us out of Heaven if repented of. No virtue, however admirable, will get us into Heaven without the blood of Christ." Leonard Ravenhill

"We talk about the baptism of the Spirit - it's really the baptism of Jesus. There's nothing you can get this side of eternity that didn't come through Jesus Christ." Leonard Ravenhill

"If a million people smiled on me while I knew God frowned on me, I would not be happy. But if God smiled on me while a million people frowned on me, I would not be unhappy." Leonard Ravenhill

"The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world and make him holy, then put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it." Leonard Ravenhill

"There are a lot of wealthy Christians that will get to heaven bankrupt. And there are a lot of Christians who are almost bankrupt, living in poverty, who will be super-millionaires when they get into eternity."Leonard Ravenhill

"We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency." Leonard Ravenhill

"I don't believe that ever in history, anywhere, at any time, by anybody, were three words more pregnant with meaning than these three words given by one Man at the end of His life - It is finished. It is finished." Leonard Ravenhill

"The Bible - It cannot be solved or dissolved by human power. It was not put together by the human mind and cannot be solved by it. It was not put together by human hands and cannot be destroyed by them." Leonard Ravenhill

"No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off." Leonard Ravenhill

"You see, today we try to organize. We try to get a bunch of people together. God never did that. God takes individual men. He takes Moses to the backside of the desert. John the Baptist was in the wilderness until the day of his showing forth. Jesus, the Son of God who had left the Glory, spent thirty years in training to minister! John Baptist thirty years in training. The apostle Paul at least thirty years. Moses at least forty years; and we want to go to Bible School six months and come out like a super prophet! It's the time factor that kills most of us. Tell me how much time you spend alone with God and I will tell you how spiritual you are."Leonard Ravenhill

"Revival is: Christ showing up in an extraordinarily powerful new way, to significantly overthrow the status quo and establish the claims of His kingdom afresh" - Steve Hawthorne

Revival is war between the Spirit and the Devil - Dr. J. Edwin Orr

Revival is an extraordinary movement of the Holy Spirit producing extraordinary results.

Richard Owen Roberts, Revival, p16-17

 he imparting of life to those who are dead, and the imparting of health to those who are dying - James Buchanan

 "...movement of the Holy Spirit bringing about a revival of New Testament Christianity in the church of Christ and its related community - Edwin Orr

Revival is a community saturated with God - Duncan Campbell

A  true Holy Spirit revival is a remarkable increase in the spiritual life of a large number of God's people, accompanied by an awesome awareness of the presence of God, intensity of prayer and praise, a deep conviction of sin with a passionate longing for holiness and unusual effectiveness in evangelism, leading to the salvation of many unbelievers. Revival is remarkable, large, effective and, above all, it is something that God brings about - Brian Edwards.

In writing of the movement, I would like first to state what I mean by revival as witnessed in the Hebrides. I do not mean a time of religious entertainment, with crowds gathering to enjoy an evening of bright gospel singing; I do not mean sensational or spectacular advertising — in a God-sent revival you do not need to spend money on advertising. I do not mean high-pressure methods to get men to an inquiry room — in revival every service is an inquiry room; the road and hill side become sacred spots to many when the winds of God blow. Revival is a going of God among his people, and an awareness of God laying hold of the community. Here we see the difference between a successful campaign and revival; in the former we may see many brought to a saving knowledge of the truth, and the church or mission experience a time of quickening, but so far as the town or district is concerned no real change is visible; the world goes on its way and the dance and picture-shows are still crowded: but in revival the fear of God lays hold upon the community, moving men and women, who until then had no concern for spiritual things, to seek after God.

Duncan Campbell, The Lewis Awakening, p. 14-15

  revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.

Charles Finney, Lectuires on Revivals

 evival is a new discovery of Jesus.

Professor James Stewart, quoted by Duncan Campbell, The Lewis Awakening, 1949-1953, p36

 You cannot revive something that has never had life, so revival, by definition, is first of all an enlivening and quickening and awakening of lethargic, sleeping church members. Suddenly the power of the Spirit comes upon them … they are humbled, they are convicted of sin … then as a result of their quickening and enlivening, they begin to pray. New power comes into the preaching of the ministers, and the result of this is large numbers are converted. So the two main characteristics of revival are, first, this extraordinary enlivening of the members of the church, and, second, the conversion of masses of people who have been outside in indifference and in sin."

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, unknown source

"Revival awakens in our heartrs an incresaed awareness of the presence of God, a new love for God, a new hatred for sin and a hunger for His Word"

Del Fehsefeld Jr.

"Revival is not some emotion or worked-up excitement; it is rather an invasion from heaven which brings a man to a consciouis awareness of God."

Steven Olford.

 

"Light means nothing to a blind man." - A.W. Tozer

"Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire." - Vance Havner

"The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so manyyears of bad preaching?" - Leonard Ravenhill

"People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives...and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted." - Nate Saint, missionary martyr

"If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity." - William Carey

"The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the world." - John R. Mott

"There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the
majority of our Christian people to mission work." - Andrew Murray

"Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing the world." - A. J. Gordon

"If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed, until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. There is little right giving because there is little right living, and because of the lack of sympathetic contact with God in holiness of heart, there is a lack of effectual contact with him at the Throne of Grace. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together, and a low standard in one means a general debility in the whole spiritual being." - Arthur T. Pierson

"Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will molest you, tantalize you, block you, and will surely find some hindrances, big or little or both. And we sometimes fail because we are ignorant of his devices.I do not
think he minds our praying about things if we leave it at that. What he minds, and opposes steadily, is the prayer that prays on until it is prayed through, assured of the answer." - Mary Warburton Booth

"The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos; the church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray." - A. W. Tozer

"We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in
which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets." - Andrew Bonar

"Many have an idyllic and sweet idea of revival. And they pray to this end. But our prayer should be to expose sin and lies, first in our own hearts and then in the churches. To pray for a great conviction of sin and that man would crumble and surrender at the terrifying presence of a Holy God. Then they would find the sweet,
rapturous joy of being at peace with their God!... Do you still want revival? We must pray and PREACH to this end. If we are silent, or silenced, many in the churches will perish." - Jeri Woods.

"To the church, a revival means humiliation, a bitter knowledge of unworthiness and an open and humiliating confession of sin on the part of her ministers and people. It is not the easy and glorious thing many think it to be, who imagine it fills pews and reinstates
the church in power and authority.... It comes to scorch before it heals; it comes to condemn ministers and people for their unfaithful witness, for their selfish living, for their neglect of the cross, and to call them to daily renunciation, to an evangelical poverty and to a deep and daily consecration..Because it says nothing to them of power such as they have learned to love, or of ease, or of success; it accuses them of sin, it tells them they are dead, it calls them to awake, to renounce the world and to follow Christ." - James Burns in his 1909 book 'Revival, Their Laws and Leaders'.

"Some people become tired at the end of ten minutes or half an hour of prayer. What will they do when they have to spend Eternity in the presence of God? We must begin the habit here and become used to being with God." - Sundar Singh

"Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of allthat is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God."
 - Andrew Murray

"Continuing instant in prayer (Rom. 12:12). The Greek is a metaphor taken from hunting dogs that never give over the game till they have their prey." - Thomas Brooks

"There is no power like that of prevailing prayer, of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat of blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is the cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It
brings life. It brings God." - Samuel Chadwick

"To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering prayer. It means to be so watchful at all times that we can notice when we become slothful in prayer and that we go to the Spirit of prayer to have this remedied. In this struggle, too, the decisive factor is the Spirit of prayer." - O. Hallesby

"How hard is it sometimes to get leave of hearts to seek God! Jesus Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace." - Thomas Watson

"Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The
Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber."  - Andrew A. Bonar

"No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame." - E. M. Bounds

"A man can not lead others where he is not willing to go himself. Therefore, beware of the prayerless church leader who no longer readily admits his own need for more of the person and power of Jesus Christ. Only a seeking, praying heart can truly encourage spiritual HUNGER in others!" - David Smithers

"I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach." - J. H. Jowett

"We need a Heaven-sent revival, a burning fire from on high, A purifying passion and a forsaking of our stubborn pride. We need a vision of eternity, of Hell and the Judgement Day, A fervent love for our Savior, that will gladly serve and obey. We need a Pentecostal purging and a breaking deep within, A vision of God Almighty and a river of tears for our nations sin. We need a Heaven-sent revival, a burning fire set ablaze.
Yet, we'll never see such glory, until the Church begins to pray." - David Smithers

"Revival is the assemblies of God manifesting the oneness of the membership in the mystical, supernatural body of Christ, delivered from denominational bigotry." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is the saints of God agonizing on behalf of lost souls going to hell." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is the people of God living in the power of an ungrieved,unquenched Spirit." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is the child of God desperately in love with his glorious Savior and Lord." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is living the Christ life in the home." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is the heathen saying, "The Lord hath done great things for them" (Psa. 126:2). - James A. Stewart

"Revival is Zion travailing in spiritual childbirth." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is the Church of God as a conquering army putting to rout the hosts of hell." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is torrents of living water flowing out of the individual believer." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is the beauty of holiness adorning the saints." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is the recognition of the ministry of insignificant members of the body, and deliverance from idol worship of the more prominent members who are in the limelight." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is the people of God constrained, gripped, overmastered, and overwhelmed by the love of Christ, so that they are feverishly restless to win souls for Christ." - James A. Stewart

"None but He who made the world can make a minister." -John Newton

"There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and
prepare them for harder work in his service." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"Our age is without passion. Everyone knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is really willing to move." - Soren Kierkegaard

"God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity." - Thomas Watson

"The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines." - Samuel Rutherford

"The question isn't were you challenged. The question is were you changed." - Leonard Ravenhill

"The whole history of the Church is one long story of this tendency to settle down on this earth and to become conformed to this world, to find acceptance and popularity here and to eliminate the element of conflict and of pilgrimage. That is the trend and the tendency of everything. Therefore outwardly, as well as inwardly, pioneering is a costly thing." - T. Austin Sparks

"One loving heart sets another on fire." - Augustine

"What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use - men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men-men of prayer." - E.M. Bounds

"His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice." - John R. W. Stott

"A servant of God has but one Master." - George Müller

 "Better it is to stretch yourself over a rift, through a breach, or across a chasm, than to drag a wounded lamb across the wasteland of your own pride." Hubert Rondeau.

"Shepherds should never mend their fences with sheep skin!" Huber Rondeau.

"Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Let us beware lest the things we own come to own us." - Anonymous

"'Why are we not more holy?' asked John Wesley, addressing his preachers. 'Chiefly because we are enthusiasts, looking for the end without the means.'" - John Wesley

"Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men." - E.M.Bounds

"God can part with nothing of His own power, and therefore I can experience the power and goodness of God only so far as I am in contact and fellowship with Himself; and when I come into contact and fellowship with Himself, I come into contact and fellowship with the whole omnipotence of God, and have the omnipotence of God to help me every day." - Andrew Murray

"The devil has a counterfeit for nearly everything." - Anonymous

"The Book of books is called the Holy Bible because it has a holy author, and aims at a holy purpose, the production of holiness in its readers." - Daniel Steele

"Take heed of drowsiness in hearing." - Thomas Watson

"Are we jealous for God's glory? To me that is what revival is all about." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Someone asked 'Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved?' It is more a question with me whether we -- who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not --
can be saved." - Charles Spurgeon

"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently." - Saint Augustine

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."  - Saint Augustine

"Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance." - Saint Augustine

"He loves God too little, who loves ANYTHING (together with Him), which He loves not for His sake." - St. Augustine

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."- C.S. Lewis

"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this." - C.S. Lewis

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." - C.S. Lewis

"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind."  - C.S. Lewis

"God doesn't call the equipped; He equips the called." - Anonymous

"The Devil is not afraid of the Bible that has dust on it." - Anonymous

"If men can get to heaven by being good then the death of Christ  is the worst waste in human history." - Dr. Toussaint

"God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him." - Andrew Murray

"You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience." - A.B. Simpson

"It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary  prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth.The biblical perspective is that the cross in a  witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride." - John Piper

"The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus"- John Piper

"Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! God
wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshipped." - John Piper

"Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God." - John Piper

"The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from Hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally
deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness." - A.W. Pink

"Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude-an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God." - A.W. Pink

"Before He furnishes the abundant supply, we must first be made conscious of our emptiness. before he gives strength, we must be made to feel our weakness. Slow, painfully slow, are we to learn this lesson; and slower still to own our nothingness and take the place of helplessness before the Mighty One." - A.W. Pink

"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble."
- C.H. Spurgeon

"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."- C.H. Spurgeon

"Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to
be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus." - C.H. Spurgeon

"A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come." - C.H. Spurgeon

"We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-ax and weapons of war." - C. H. Spurgeon

"Knowledge is not about what information you have obtained but how you use it." - Korbin Wallace

"Wrong attitudes in our lives will block the blessings of God and cause us to live below God's potential for our lives." - John Maxwell

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."- Ralph W. Emerson

"Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." - C.S. Lewis

"Men don't follow titles, they follow courage, and if you would just lead them, they would follow you forever, and so would I."  - Braveheart

"Lord, help me learn the secrets, that the little flowers know. That if it never rains, we will never grow." - known

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." - C. S. Lewis

"But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ- life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it." - C.S. Lewis

"Dear Friend, God loves you, therefore seek Him diligently; Pray to Him earnestly. Read His Word constantly. Jesus is the Comfort." - Evan Roberts

"Wanna know if Jesus Christ is THE ONLY WAY to heaven??? .....Ask the lost souls in hell!!" - unknown

"The thought of procrastination is murder to the soul." - Charles G. Finney

"Nothing is too big for my God to accomplish, and nothing is too little for Him to use in accomplishing it!" - Unknown

"Keep looking up...with your face down." - Disciple

"One with God is a majority." - Billy Graham

One day a lady criticized D. L. Moody for his methods of evangelism in attempting to win people to the Lord. Moody's reply  was: "I agree with you. I don't like the way I do it either. Tell me, how do you do it?" The lady replied, "I don't do it." Moody responded "I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it."

"If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself." - Augustine.

"It is the eyes of other people that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture." - Benjamin Franklin.

"Joy is the byproduct of obedience." - Unknown

"My greatest thought is my accountability to God." - Daniel Webster

"'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to
go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face -- whose mercy you have professed to obey -- and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world." -- William Booth,
founder of the Salvation Army

"For until we hold men as dear and precious to us, God holds us as murderers." -- John Calvin

"The Christian life is an impossible one and it isn't for everyone. You must enter through the narrow where you must leave everything behind and be stripped naked of yourself. You must get rid of your pride. Many so-called christians are on the wide road leading to destruction. They may have all the outward signs of being a Christian (go to church, serve, read their Bible, pray, etc.) but there is no inward change of repentance." - Unknown

"Whom have I in heaven but thee? The only heaven I wish above is but to see thy face. Let others form confused ideas of the upper world, and desire it as a place where something is to be enjoyed, they know not what; but I know what a heaven I desire. Could I ascend to the highest heavens and find the presence of my God
withdrawn, it would be no heaven for me. The only reason I pant to ascend above the sun and all these ruinable worlds, is that I may bask in the sunshine of his smiles, and forever behold the source of light without one envious cloud between. Let me but sit at his feet and gaze upon his lovely face, and cry, with unutterable
wonder and gratitude, 'My Lord and my God,' and I ask no more." -- Edward Griffin

"Don't speak too much when you counsel sir. Get to the point and pray. Let God do it!" - Keith Daniel

"The preacher who neglects to preach to himself has forgotten a very important part of his audience. We must first address our own soul. If we can move that by the words we may utter, we may hope to have some power with the souls of others." - C.H. Spurgeon

"We manufacture atheists with mundane Christianity." - Robert Wurtz II

"If you ask me if I believe in the eternal security of the believer, I would say I most certainly do. And I also believe in the insecurity of the make-believer." - J. Vernon McGee

"Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell." - William Booth

"God is the sweetest friend, but the worst enemy."-Thomas Watson

"Beware of a dividing spirit; shun whatever has the least aspect that way. Therefore say not "I am of Paul, or of Apollos:" the very thing which occasioned the schism at Corinth. Say not "This is my preacher, the best preacher in the land; give me him and take all the rest..." Do not run down any preacher. Do not exalt any
one above the rest, lest you hurt both him and the cause of God." - John Wesley

"He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low no pride." - John Bunyan

"A man full of hope will be full of action."-Thomas Brooks

"We need to weep over the immorality in our homes. We have to weep and wail that we have broken covenant with God." - Nancy Leigh DeMoss

"We are playing church. We are so busy trying to be relevant to the world that we have become just like the world..... AND the world is not impressed." - Nancy Leigh DeMoss

"There is nothing wrong with the command of God to 'stone the false prophet!' The problem is that the church has discerned wrongly and stoned the true prophet! That is why there are no more true prophets in our days, because as soon as they begin their ministry, we rub them out. This is the reason that so many false prophets are running around, not just because it's the end of the age but because we have disobeyed God, His command, and
killed off His prophets! We are like Herod, who in the midst of John the Baptist's ministry, chose a wrong time to listen to his conscience instead of the Holy Spirit!" - G.A. Jarquin

"If you study the Bible without applying it to your daily life, then it would be better not to study it at all." - Zac Poonen

"'Nobody's perfect.' This is the hypocrite's couch. This is the believer's bed of thorns." - Al Martin

"I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done." - James Hudson Taylor

"Self-condemnation is Satan's lie to prevent sinners from repenting." - Pastor Jan Greenley (paraphrased)

"Surrender fully! Love wholly!" -Yolanda Diehl

"Give! pour! pray! yield! follow!"
-Yolanda Diehl

"Elisha had more of the Holy Spirit, dead, than most Christians have of Him, alive." - Steve Wilburn

"God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!" - Leonard Ravenhill

"I don't want to preach GOOD, I want to preach GOD!" - G.A. Jarquin

"We sometimes talk about the price of revival, and we need to be very careful as to what we mean when we speak like this. We may place that price so high that we put revival right beyond the reach of the ordinary run of mortals. Maybe that is our way of attempting to justify God, that He has not yet, apparently, given the revival His people need. But that is a wrong done to God and a cruelty done to his church. There is without doubt a price to be paid for revival, but it is not of necessity the long nights of prayer or excruciating sacrifices, but of simply humbling pride to repent of sin." - Roy Hession

"Put off a sin or a piece of a sin every day."-Rutherford.

"A revival is no more a miracle than a crop of wheat. In any community revival can be secured from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be to win
and die! The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." - Charles G. Finney

"Truth must be spoken, however it be taken."-John Trapp

"You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed." - A. J. Gordon

"Playing marbles with diamonds, thats what we are doing in the church today." - Vance Havner

"When the church and the world can jog comfortably along together, you can be sure something is wrong. The world has not compromised - its spirit is exactly the same as it ever was. If Christians were equally as faithful to the Lord, separated from the world, and living so that their lives were a reproof to all ungodliness, the world would hate them as much as it ever did. It is the church that has compromised, not the world." - Catherine Booth

"I'm not an erudite man, but I only have one message. Repent. That's it. Now I can sit down." - Ray Greenley

"I bet you there will be people in hell saying, 'I thought there was no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.'" - G.A. Jarquin

"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still." - A.W. Tozer

"When Jesus said 'The Kingdom of God is within you,' He meant that kingdom that governs and controls the heart and mind and outlook." - Martin Lloyd Jones

"Where there have been mighty deeds, there need be no multitude of words to tell of them. Many words are required only where the deeds have been too feeble to speak for themselves." - A.W. Tozer
"They will pay $15 for a Christian concert to hear a Christian singer and for free they won't come into the presence of God and call upon the name of the Lord." - Jim Cymbala

"The Lord came not to destroy, but to save. Everything is safe which we commit to Him and nothing is really safe which is not so committed." - A.W. Tozer

"No praying.. no holiness." - Greg Gordon

"Know praying...Know holiness." - MB

"God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His gospel out in the world. 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." - H.A. Ironside

"Being broken is both God's work and ours. He brings His pressure to bear, but we have to make the choice...All day long the choice will be before us in a thousand ways." - Roy Hession.

"Let me learn by paradox that the way down is the way up, that to be low is to be high, that the broken heart is the healed heart, that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit, that the repenting soul is the victorious soul, that to have nothing is to possess all, that to bear the cross is to wear the crown, that to give is to receive, that the valley is the place of vision." -Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions.

"When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves." - A. W. Tozer

"When filled with holy truth the mind rests."- C.H. Spurgeon

"IF you want to be the first among your brothers and sisters, then you have to be a bond-slave, not only to Christ, but to your brothers and sisters." - Stephen Kaung

"We must frankly face the fact that there is in this teaching a revolutionary element which could be dangerously subversive of our existing ways of thought. Let us admit that it is part of the fallen human nature of ecclesiastics, no less than of others in  responsible positions, to desire always criteria of judgement which can be used without making too heavy demands upon the delicate faculty of spiritual discernment, clear-cut rules by which we may hope to be saved from making mistakes -- or rather, from being obviously and personally responsible for the mistakes. We are uncomfortable without definite principles by which we may guide our steps. We fear uncharted country, and the fanatics of all kinds who, upon the alleged authority of the Holy Spirit, summon us with strident cries in all directions simultaneously. Only those who have
never borne the heavy burden of pastoral responsibility will mock at the cautious spirit of the ecclesiastic." - Lesslie Newbigin

"Some people read their Bible in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost." - Smith Wigglesworth

"I am convinced that many evangelicals are not truly and soundly converted. Among the evangelicals it is entirely possible to come into membership, to ooze in by osmosis, to leak through the cells of the church and never know what it means to be born of the Spirit and washed in the blood. A great deal that passes for the deeper life is nothing more or less than basic Christianity. There is nothing deeper about it, and it is where we should have been from
the start... What we need is what the old Methodists called a sound conversion. There is a difference between conversion and a sound conversion. People who have never been soundly converted do not have the Spirit to enlighten them. When they read the Sermon on the Mount or the teaching passages of the epistles that tell them how to live or the doctrinal passages that tell how they can live, they are unaffected. The Spirit who wrote them is not witnessing in their hearts because they have not been born of the Spirit. That often happens." - A W Tozer.

"No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight." - John Calvin

"With all your getting get unction." - Leonard Ravenhill

"When the Lord reveals His will to us and we obey, our mission will be a success regardless of the results." - Chinese house church leaders, Back to Jerusalem movement

"Those who are God's true witnesses are firmly anchored in Him, in love or in suffering, no matter what God may give or take away. They do not set much store by their own methods; if they prove helpful to their spiritual life, well and good. But God, in his loving foresight, often shatters their foundations and thus they frequently find themselves thwarted. If they want to keep vigil, they are obliged to sleep; if they like to fast, they are made to eat; if they would like to keep silence and be at rest, they have to do otherwise. In this way, everything they cleave to crumbles, and they are brought face-to-face with their bare nothingness. Thus they are shown how total is their dependence on God, and they learn to confess Him with a pure and simple faith, with no other support to sustain them." - Johannes Tauler.

"Worship renews the spirit as sleep renews the body." - Richard Clarke Cabot

"It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you." - George Macdonald

"The saintly Andrew Bonar used to soak his pillow with tears every Saturday night in Scotland as people below trampled the streets returning from the taverns and shows. He would cry from the depths of his agonizing heart, "Oh! They perish, they perish!"

"Our lives are to be indisputable evidence of the resurrection of Jesus Christ." - Carter Conlon

"The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good." - Oswald Chambers

"Where reason cannot wade there faith may swim."  - Thomas Watson

"Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account." - Oswald Chambers

"I know men, and I tell you that Jesus is not a man. The religion of Christ is a mystery which subsists by its own force, and proceeds from a mind which is not a human mind. We find in it a marked individuality, which originated a train of words and actions unknown before. Jesus is not a philosopher, for His proofs are miracles, and from the first His disciples adored Him. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and myself founded empires; but on what foundation did we rest the creatures of our genius? Upon force. But Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him. I die before my time, and my body will be
given back to the earth to become food for worms. Such is the fate of him who has been called the great Napoleon. What an abyss between my deep misery and the eternal kingdom of Christ, which is proclaimed, loved, adored, and is still existing over the whole earth!" Then, turning to Gen. Bertrand, the emperor added: "If you do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, I did wrong in appointing you a general." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Prayer can do anything that God can do." - E.M. Bounds

"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 Finney

"What I have seen in the past 10 years of travelling - performing at a church one day and a casino the next - is that a lot of people in the church want to be entertained, and people in casinos want to be ministered to. That's hard to understand, but I see a hunger in the world that I don't see in the church." - Ricky Shaggs (musician)

"Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions." - Matthew Henry

"Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion." - Evelyn Underhill

"Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." -- Matthew 16:24,25 (KJV)

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Don't try to bring the Word of God down to your level. Let it pull you up to its level." - David MacDonald

'If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the Word of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not
confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Him. Where the battle rages there the loyalty of the soldier is proved and to be steady on all the battle front besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.' - Martin Luther

"If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't begin; for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of
citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegience. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it's not for you." - K. Arthur

"Our murmuring is the devil's music." - Thomas Watson

"Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity." - Horatius Bonar

"Preach abroad! It is the cooping yourselves up in rooms that has dampened the work of God, which never was and never will be carried out to any purpose without going into the highways and hedges and compelling men and women to come in." - Jonathan Edwards.

"No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse has done his duty. A defense is required for services within buildings rather than for worship outside of them." - William Booth

"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

"One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do no constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always."
- A. W. Tozer

"It is God's way to let ministers try all their strength first, and then He Himself comes and subdues the hearts they cannot." - Jonathan Edwards

"A man full of hope will be full of action." - Thomas Brooks

"We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so." - J.C. Ryle

"Finney preached, and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! That's good preaching." - Leonard Ravenhill

"The greatest wisdom on this earth is holiness." - W.S. Plumer

"We fear men so much because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God." - William Gurnall

"Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them." - John Bunyan

"Making heaven on earth is our business." - William Booth

"If your faith can't be tested, it can't be trusted."

"When filled with holy truth the mind rests." - C.H. Spurgeon

"If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go in offering ourselves to God. We hover around these reservations, making believe not to see them, for fear of self-reproach. The more we shrink from giving up any such reserved point, the more certain it is that it needs to be given up. If we were not fast bound by it, we should not make so many efforts to persuade ourselves that we are free." - François Fénelon

"Is what you're living for worth Christ's dying for?"  - Epitaph of Leonard Ravenhill

"One life to live and soon it will be past. Only things done for Christ will ever truly last." - unknown

"Some people complain that God placed thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns." - unknown

"Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary." - Thomas Betterton

"Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray." - Charles H. Brent

"Don't be afraid of tomorrow -- God is already there." - unknown

"Your character is who you are when no one but God is watching you." - unknown

"The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!" - Leonard Ravenhill

"And When I am dying, how happy I'll be, If the lamp of my life has been burned out for Thee."
 - Author Unknown

"The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God. It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to
draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth. You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time." - John Mott

"When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words, than thy words without a heart." - John Bunyan

"The shortest distance between a problem and the solution is the distance between your knees and the floor." - Anonymous

"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

"As a Christian, I am responsible for the furniture of my mind." - Frank E. Gaebelein

"Holiness is an impossiblity - without the Holy Spirit." - Anonymous

"It is no sin to doubt some things but it may be fatal to believe everything." - A.W. Tozer.

"A baptism of holiness, a demonstration of godly living is the crying need of our day." - Duncan Campbell

"It shall greatly help thee to understand Scripture if thou markest not only what is spoken or written
- but of whom
- and to whom
- with what words
- at what time
- where
- to what intent
- with what circumstances
- considering what goeth before
- and what followeth."
- John Wycliffe

"Oh, If only once we could be convinced of God's goodness towards His children and of His desire to reveal Himself to them! We would no longer seek out own selfish desires. We would not be so quickly discouraged from pursuing what He is so long to give us: Romans 8:32 (kjv) - He who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not, with Him, also freely give us all things? We only need a little courage and perseverance. Actually, we have enough of both in our earthly affairs, but none at all in the only thing that really matters (Luke 10:42)." - Jeanne Guyon

"God can gift people, but it is something else when a man is in favour with God; when God can say 'For this man's sake, I will not judge this city or will show favour to this church.'" - Greg Gordon

"In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them." - A. W. Tozer

"It is necessary that our sharpest trials should sometimes spring from our dearest comforts, else we should be in danger of forgetting ourselves and setting up our rest here." - John Newton

"Live in Christ and the flesh need not fear death." - John Knox

"Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul." - Matthew Henry

"God's choice acquaintances are humble men." - Robert Leighton

"God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way." - Max Lucado

"Adversity doesn't build character; it reveals it." - Anonymous

"I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience are in order.... when these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy are in order, but only anger, dispute, and destruction -- to be sure, only with the Word of God as our weapon." - Martin Luther.

"To remain divided is sinful! Did not our Lord pray, that they may be one, even as we are one"? (John 17:22). A chorus of ecumenical voices keep harping the unity tune. What they are saying is, "Christians of all doctrinal shades and beliefs must come together in one visible organization, regardless... Unite, unite!" Such teaching is false, reckless and dangerous. Truth alone must
determine our alignments. Truth comes before unity. Unity without truth is hazardous. Our Lord's prayer in John 17 must be read in its full context. Look at verse 17: "Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth." Only those sanctified through the Word can be one in Christ. To teach otherwise is to betray the Gospel." -Charles H. Spurgeon.

"It is our solemn conviction that where there can be no real spiritual communion there should be no pretence of fellowship. Fellowship with known and vital error is participation in sin."  -Charles Spurgeon.

"Showing mercy to the wolf is showing cruelty to the sheep." - Puritan.

"Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride.
Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair.
Knowing Christ gives the balance." - Blaise Pascal

"Christ always identified Himself with the least, the last, and the lost." - Unknown

"Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity." - Brother Lawrence

"The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things." - Oswald Chambers

"When preachers do not call sin, sin, the people begin to wink at sin!" - Dr. Micheal Useph

"The secret of Christianity is not asking Jesus into your heart; it is Jesus' asking us into His."  - Unknown

"Growth is not more knowledge or increase of years; it is simply more of Him and less of me. He increases as I decrease. This is what it means to be a disciple." - Chip Brogden

"Worldliness is what any particular culture does to make sin look normal and righteousness look strange." - David Wells

"Some say that faith is the gift of God. So is the air, but you have to breathe it; so is bread, but you have to eat it. Some are wanting some miraculous kind of feeling. That is not faith. 'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word." - D. L. Moody

"Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea." - D.L. Moody

Mr. Spurgeon leaning over the platform of a church where a work of grace was going on, heard a penitent below in great distress pray earnestly, 'Lord, make a good job of me! Lord, make a good
job of me!'

"It doesn't take an extraordinary person - just devotion to our
extraordinary God - to live an extraordinary life." - Unknown.

RAVENHILL QUOTES

 "A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience."

"The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were 'Repent!'"

"A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way."

"Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel-and just as empty!"

"John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets."

"I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again."

"Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin."

"There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin."

[Concerning the darkness that has enveloped most of Christendom:] "When you're sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness-or you can light a candle."

"Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says."

"Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time
preparing internally for church-with prayer and meditation?"

"Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age."

"What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?"

"The only time you can really say that 'Christ is all I need,' is when Christ is all you have."

"The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete."

"Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?"

"Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility."

"Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies."

[Concerning one of the new "movements" in the church that was causing a stir among Christians:] "There's also a stir when the circus comes to town."

"My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list."

"You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict."

"When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like,
they call it 'legalism.'"

"We can't serve God by proxy."

"We must do what we can do for God, before He will give us the power to do what we can't do."

"There's a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle."

"Our seminaries today are turning out dead men."

"How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?"

"Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death."

"If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong!"

[Concerning the fixation that today's church has with numbers, with growth at any price:] "The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!"

"Any method of evangelism will work-if God is in it."

"Church unity comes from corporate humility."

"You can have all of your doctrines right-yet still not have the presence of God."

"Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?"

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

"You can know a lot about the atonement, and yet receive no benefit from it."

"If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ."

"The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful adjustment to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. The world recognizes them and accepts them for what they are. And this is the saddest thing that can be said about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints." - A.W.
Tozer

"it is more important that God be glorified then that I be saved!" A.W Tozer

A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them. -Baxter, Richard

We need more speaking to God about men, than speaking to men about God. -Mother Cobb

Consider this, Christian: that all your trialsand troubles, calamities and miseries, crossesand losses which you meet in this world are allthe hell you shall ever have!!  THOMAS BROOKS

Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth." - Alistair Begg

John Wesley one day walked to his mother and asked: "Mum, define sin for me". Her aswer was this: "Whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes away your relish for spiritual things, in short, if anything increases the authority of the flesh over the spirit, that to you becomes sin, however good it is in itself."

"It is not difficult to say what it is that hardens the hearts. The seed sown by the wayside could not enter the soil because it had been trodden down by the passersby. When the world, with its business and its intrests, has at all times a free passage, the heart loses its tenderness." -Andrew Murray, from the book "The Holiest of All"

Nothing so effectually hinders hearing God's voice as opening the heart too much to other voices. A heart too deeply interested in the news, the literature, and the society of this world cannot hear the devine voice. It needs stillness, retirement, and concentration to give God the heed He claims. -Andrew Murray, From the book "The Holiest of All"

"When alone with God, be alone with Him"  -Samuel Chadwick

"There are blessing of The Kingdom that are only yielded to the violence of the vehement soul"  -Samuel Chadwick

"You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God...This kind of prayer be sure the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose. They will pour water on this flame." - William Booth.

"A man set on fire is an apostle of his age. And the only one who can kindle the spark of light and fire on the hearth where it has died down is He who has revealed Himself as the God of fire, our
Lord Jesus Christ. 'Our God is a consuming fire'...Tell me, is your inistry a burning and shining light, or a smoking wick, slowly dying out to ashes? ...It is a strange custom that we should
supply a minister with a glass of water; if only we could supply him with a bonfire in the pulpit, a spiritual bonfire. We need the dynamic of a flaming ministry that will set the Church on fire."
 - Samuel M. Zwemer (Keswick 1937)

"Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its muscles. To pray is to grow in grace. To tarry in the presence of
the King leads to new loyalty and devotion on the  part of the faithful subjects. Christian character grows in the secret-place of prayer." - Samuel M. Zwemer.

"At Waterloo, the English troops obeying orders fell on their faces for a time and let the hot fire of the French artillery pass over them. Then they sprang to their feet and rushed to the thickest of the fight and beat back their foes. The Lord wants His people flat on their faces, before they attempt to meet the great crises of life." - A. T. Pierson.

"A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: 'I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts. ' The workman answered: 'Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees.'" - A. T. Pierson

"How often has very earnest prayer for the fullness of the Holy Ghost been in vain, because he who sought that unspeakable blessing sought it rather for the glory which the possession of it,
or the reputation for the possession of it, might bring to man, than for the honor and praise that might be brought to God." - G. H. C. Macgregor

"Our power in drawing others after the Lord mainly rests in our joy and communion with Him ourselves." - J. G. Bellett

"Do not be satisfied with as much Christianity as will only ease your conscience." - J. B. Stoney

"By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a FEVER!" - Watchman Nee

"If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one GO there UNWARNED and UNPRAYED for." - Charles Spurgeon

"The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of
agony." - Samuel Logan Brengle

"Do we give sufficient attention to the theme of gaining Christ? It is our joy and privilege to know Him as God's unspeakable gift, but none knew this more fully than the apostle Paul. But was he satisfied with this knowledge? Or was Paul's soul-consuming desire, at all possible cost, to gain Christ; and thus to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings? Oh that Christ may be so known by us as a 'living, bright reality' that our one desire-our one absorbing heart-passion may be that we personally gain Christ - that we personally know Him as the apostle longed to do." - Hudson Taylor

"What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings! Pambus wept when he saw a harlot dressed with much care and cost-partly to see one take so much pains to go to hell; and partly because he had not been so careful to please God, as she had been to please her sluttish lovers. Ah, Christians! what great reason have you to sit down and weep bitterly-that worldlings take so much pains to make themselves miserable-and that you have taken no more pains to get more of Christ into your hearts!" -Thomas Brooks.

"Revival is Zion travailing in spiritual childbirth." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is the Church of God as a conquering army putting to rout the hosts of hell." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is torrents of living water flowing out of the individual believer." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is the beauty of holiness adorning the saints." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is the recognition of the ministry of insignificant members of the body, and deliverance from idol worship of the more prominent members who are in the limelight." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is restoring the years the locusts have eaten." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is the people of God constrained, gripped, overmastered, and overwhelmed by the love of Christ, so that they are feverishly restless to win souls for Christ." - James A. Stewart

"I believe there is one thing for which God is very angry with our land, and for which His Holy Spirit is so little among us, and that is the neglect of united prayer; the appointed means of bringing down the Holy Spirit." - Brownlow North

"Oh Christians, go more to the prayer-meetings." - Brownlow North

"From the day of Pentecost, there has been not one great spiritual awakening in any land which has not begun in a union of prayer, though only among two or three. And no such outward, upward movement has continued after such prayer meetings have declined. It is in exact proportion to the maintenance of such joint and believing supplication and intercession that the Word of the Lord in any land or locality has had free course and been glorified." - A. T. Pierson

"Revival and change are almost synonymous terms and both clearly cut across traditionalism. There is no way true revival can occur without major changes disrupting and reordering the life of the Church... God is no traditionalist. While God is orderly, He is always fresh and vital. If a church can run according to forms and traditions of men, it will run without the presence and power of God... Is it any wonder the love of tradition is an enemy to revival? Revival and new life go hand in hand ... Let every church realize that the inordinate love of tradition is a great opponent to revival ... When a church slays the love of tradition, a major obstacle to revival will be slain With it." - Richard Owen Roberts

"To some of you we say, Go forward rather than pray. Think not that we would, as these words might imply, cast discredit on prayer. But, beloved our hearts are deceitful, and although we
should at every moment have an upward eye and a thirsting heart for the guidance and the presence of the living God, still there are times and circumstances when it becomes almost a sin to pray. Sometimes it is unbelief that makes us pray, or rather seem to pray, else what does that word mean, ''Why criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward.'"(Ex 14:15)  - William C. Burns

"There is no question that God works, often powerfully, in the old structures. But it is inevitable that those very structures put serious limitations on His working. It is all too easy for the ground
gained to be lost, for the situation to revert, and for the whole process to need repeating within a short space of time. Take the 1950, Lewis Awakening. Though confined to certain Presbyterian
churches in the Outer Hebrides, this was a powerful movement of the Spirit that deeply affected those communities at the time. Many found faith in Christ, and some of these are now in full-time service. But the fact remains that in less than a decade you could visit those very churches where God had worked so powerfully and never suspect that they had ever tasted revival. Without a change of structure it is virtually Impossible to conserve the fruits of revival."
 - Arthur Wallis

"If our GOAL is Revival, we will be quite unbalanced when it comes. If our goal is God, we will be able to walk with Him calmly and steadfastly through years of waiting and through the joys and
victories of a season of refreshing. Christ crucified and risen is not only the Door, and the Way, but the End also. It is our personal relationship to Him which counts more than anything else. Oh, the need for men and women who know their God! The Church of Christ will only arise militant, triumphant, an 'exceeding great army', when individuals get rightly related to God." - Nancy B. Morris

"Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are too 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." - Ted S. Rendall

"The disappearance of the 'prayer meeting' from the life of many churches is something which occasions widespread regret, even among many who would not normally attend. Indeed, the prayer meeting in which the laity participated freely is a legacy from the 1859 (Ulster) Revival...These prayer meetings were not in many cases in existence before the revival set in. The very establishment of them in the first instance, was an evidence that it was spring- time again in the Church of Christ, and the restoration of them today would be for her reviving once more." - John T. Carson

"I am tired of hearing the words 'I can't'. Jeremiah said, 'I am a child'; but the Lord didn't pat him on the back and say, Jeremiah, that is very good, I like that in you; your humility is beautiful.' Oh no! God didn't want any such mock humility. He reproved and rebuked it. I do not like the humility that is too humble to do as it is bid. When my children are too humble to do as they are bid, I pretty soon find a way to make them. I say, 'Go and do it!' The Lord wants us to 'go and do it'." - Catherine Booth

"All practical power over sin and over men depends on maintaining closet communion. Those who abide in the secret place with God show themselves mighty to conquer evil, and strong to work and to war for God. They are seers who read His secrets; they know His will; they are the meek whom He guides in judgment and teaches His way. They are His prophets who speak for Him to others, and even forecast things to come. They watch the signs of the times and discern His tokens and read His signals." - A. T. Pierson

"Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation." - General Booth

"You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!" - Catherine Booth

"This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!" - Keith Green

"I was eight years old when I joined the Church, I preached my first sermon when I was fourteen, and yet I was a missionary for twenty years before I had a full vision of Christ as an ever-present  Savior from sin. This vision of Christ is absolutely necessary for success." - Griffith John

"I long to be filled with divine knowledge, divine wisdom, divine love, divine holiness, to the utmost extent of my capacity. I want to feel that all the currents of my soul are interfused in one channel deep and wide, and all flowing towards the heart of Christ." - Griffith John

"It is the Holy Ghost in us that is everything, and the Father is willing to bestow Him upon the weakest if he will only ask in the spirit of implicit faith and entire self-surrender. My cry these days is for a Pentecost, first on myself and my missionary brethren, and then on the native Church, and then on the heathen at large." - Griffith John

"The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. The missionary must above all things be a holy man. The ideal teacher of the Chinese is a holy man. He is entirely sincere, and perfect in
love. He is magnanimous, generous, benign, and full of forbearance. He is pure in heart, free from selfishness, and never swerves from the path of duty in his conduct. He is deep and active like a fountain, sending forth his virtues in due season. He is seen, and men revere him; he speaks, and men believe him; he acts, and men are gladdened by him. He possesses all heavenly virtues. He is one with Heaven." - Griffith John

"I am convinced that no Christian teacher can be a great spiritual power in China in whom this ideal is not embodied and manifested in an eminent degree. He must be more than a good man (shan jen); he must be a holy man (sheng jen), exhibiting the vigor of every right purpose, and the intensity of every devout affection. He must be a man full of the Holy Ghost, and the divinity within must energize mightily through him. He must be a man who will take time, not only to master the language and literature of this people, but also to be holy. It is not ourselves-our poor selves-the Chinese want to see, but God in us" - Griffith John

"The Holy Spirit is the source of spiritual unity! He is the Fount of all true joy! We as missionaries need the fullness of this joy. Without it our work will be a burden to us, and we shall toil on with the hearts of slaves; and the hearts of slaves are never strong." - Griffith John

"We must take time to become filled with His power; we must take time to be holy. Let us put our desires into one heart-felt petition for a baptism of the Holy Ghost, and not cease to present
it until we have prevailed. So Elijah prayed; he threw himself on the ground, resolved not to rise again till his request was granted. So Jacob WRESTLED with the angel. So Daniel set his face unto the Lord his God. So the disciples continued with one accord in prayer and supplication! - Griffith John

"God's time for revival is the very darkest hour, when everything seems hopeless. It is always the Lord's way to go to the very worst cases to manifest His glory." - Andrew Gih

"God's program for reviving His people is definite and clear. First Elijah "repaired the altar of Jehovah that was thrown down." That is the place to begin. All the ruin that sin has wrought must be cleared away by confession. Things must be made right with God; restitution must be made where it is due. Unless this is done definitely and thoroughly, prayer for reviving is vain.Too many are praying today without repairing the altar by confession of sin, without digging a trench of separation from the world and without a surrender that is even unto death. No wonder such prayer is fruitless." - Andrew Gih

"In the interior city of Chengchow the 'Bethel Evangelistic Band'  had a very difficult time. The meetings had gone on without noticeable results and the last day came. The Band knew that the
hindrance must be with the leaders who seemed quite indifferent. Desperately we prayed, and when hope seem almost gone we were reminded that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years. He can do wonders in just one day! Our faith took hold on God for the fall of Jericho at the last. And God honored our faith. During the morning meeting one of the missionaries could not restrain his tears and confessed most humbly that he was a great sinner and hypocrite. Then the Holy Spirit fell on the whole congregation and all were convicted of sin and confessed with tears of contrition. At the closing meeting there was no opportunity for preaching. The Holy Spirit was working and people spontaneously confessed their sins and need, or gave joyous testimonies of salvation." - Andrew Gih

"Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek." - William Booth

"Revival is the saints of God agonizing on behalf of lost souls going to hell." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is the people of God living in the power of an ungrieved, unquenched Spirit." - James A. Stewart

"Revival is the child of God desperately in love with his glorious Savior and Lord." - James A. Stewart

"We have lost the sacred art of spending time with God, and nothing else can ever take its place. No repentance however deep, no restitution however costly, no sorrow however complete, can do away with the necessity for a daily time of sacred quiet, alone with God." ( Keswick 1946 ) - Gordon M. Guinness

"When our quiet times have become hurried, how can we expect to give God the adoration that is His due? How can we receive the guidance that God is waiting to give? How can our hearts catch
the glow of divine fire? How can we have deep fellowship with those purposes that are really nearest to the heart of God?" (Keswick 1946 ) - Gordon M. Guinness

"I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians."  - Samuel M. Zwemer

"I have said that there is nothing in the world or the Church, except its disobedience, to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility." - Robert E. Speer

"Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field." - John R. Mott

"The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer." - John R. Mott

"If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of consistent members of the Church are with one accord day by day making intercession for the extension of Christ's Kingdom." - John R. Mott

"The evangelization of the world in this generation depends first of all upon a revival of prayer. Deeper than the need for men; deeper, far, than the need for money; aye, deep down at the bottom of our spiritless life is the need for the forgotten secret of prevailing, world-wide prayer." - Robert E. Speer

"The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally
deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness." - A. W. Pink

"Christ is a Savior for those realizing something of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, who feel the awful burden of it on their conscience, who loathe themselves for it, who long to be freed from its terrible dominion; and a Savior for no others." - A. W. Pink

"Faith and prayer are so inter-linked that faith is prayer and prayer is faith. You cannot separate them. You could not have the one without the other." - A. Lindsay Glegg

"Is the Gospel really dynamite, or does it need all sorts of human institutions and money? Much of the work we have done in the name of Jesus Christ has been, not to perform miracles of the
Holy Ghost, but miracles of gold." -David Griffin

"If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a
certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon them until they become nervous and awkward too." -Mildred Cable

"God has called us to co-operate with Him in making the Gospel known to our generation." - J. Stuart Holden

"My business is with all my might to serve my own generation. In doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord tarry.I have but one life to live on earth and this one life is but a brief life for sowing in comparison with eternity for reaping." -George Müller.

"Wherever the Church is aroused and the world's wickedness arrested, somebody has been praying." - A. T. Pierson

"How terrible is the cost of robbing God of time for prayer. When we rob God of time for quiet, we are robbing Him of ourselves. It is only in the quiet that we can really know Him and know ourselves, and be sure that we give ourselves back to Him. Oh, for God's sake, do not risk keeping the windows of Heaven closed by robbing God of time."  - Gordon M. Guinness

"The missionary church is a praying church. The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer. Are thousands of
missionaries and tens of thousands of native workers needed? 'Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers into His harvest.'" - John R. Mott

"Why does the Church stay indoors? They have a theology that has dwindled into a philosophy, in which there is no thrill of faith, no terror of doom and no concern for souls. Unbelief has put out the fires of passion, and worldliness garlands the altar of sacrifice with the tawdry glitter of unreality. The Holy Ghost cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of saving passion. For this enterprise He wants a separated, sanctified and sacrificial people." - Samuel Chadwick

"We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not argue about worldliness; we witness. We do not discuss philosophy; we
preach the Gospel. We do not speculate about the destiny of sinners; we pluck them as brands from the burning. We ask no man's patronage. We beg no man's money. We fear no man's
frown.Let no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but  those who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of the Holy Ghost." - Samuel Chadwick

"The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer." - Samuel Chadwick

"The whole history of the Church is one long story of this tendency to settle down on this earth and to become conformed to this world, to find acceptance and popularity here and to eliminate the element of conflict and of pilgrimage. That is the trend and the tendency of everything. Therefore outwardly, as well as inwardly, pioneering is a costly thing." - T. Austin Sparks

"It is a costly and a suffering thing to come up against the religious system that has ' settled down ' here. It is far more costly than coming up against the naked world itself. The religious
system can be more ruthless and cruel and bitter; it can be actuated by all those mean things, contemptible things, prejudices and suspicious things that you will not even find in decent people
in the world. It is costly to go on to the heavenlies, it is painful; but it is the way of the pioneer, and it has to be settled that that is how it is." - T. Austin Sparks

"'Go ye' is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as 'Come unto Me.' You are not even a Christian until you have honestly faced your responsibility in regard to the carrying of the Gospel to the ends of the earth. What is your part in that great task?" - J. Stuart Holden

"There are great marvels in the world to-day. There is the marvel of the disobedient Church, which hugs to itself Christian privileges and neglects Christian obligations." - J. Stuart Holden

"It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces." -Samuel Chadwick

"It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them." - Amy Carmichael

"The evangelization of the world in this generation depends first of all upon a revival of prayer. Deeper than the need for men; deeper, far, than the need for money; aye, deep down at the bottom of our spiritless life is the need for the forgotten secret of prevailing,
world-wide prayer." - Robert E. Speer

"A generation which wishes for a religion without tears must find it difficult to adjust its beliefs to the teaching of the New Testament and of the facts of life." - W. R. Inge

"Are you living for the things you are praying for?" - Austin Phelps

"Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no
tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!" - Oswald J. Smith

"Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh....Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them." - A. W. Tozer

"A prayerless man is proud and independent, and any church that neglects corporate prayer is sadly no better. Only God's humble and needy children take the time to pray. Everyone else is just going through the motions and naively trusting in their own strength!" -David Smithers

"We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist--Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy." -A. W. Tozer

"The time factor in prayer is very important. In the exercise of prayer God is not tied to our clocks. Neither is He at the other end of the phone to receive and answer our two-minute calls. It takes time to know the mind of God, to shut out the material things of earth and to be wholly abandoned." -Hugh C. C. McCullough

"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

"He can do all things who prays well. All soul-winners have conquered on their knees. Wherever the secret of prevailing prayer is found, something supernatural will come to pass." - G. F. Oliver

"No system of doctrine, preaching and worship which fails to develop prayer, faith, spiritual labor, and success in converting souls from sin, can long have the face to claim to be the religion of Jesus Christ!" -William W. Patton

"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

"There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and
although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we nonetheless prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord." - William Booth

"We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, "prayer and fasting." We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God." - Andrew Bonar

"The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph." - Samuel Zwemer

"This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience." - A. W. Tozer

"Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it." - Matthew Henry

"Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will molest you, tantalize you, block you, and will surely find some hindrances, big or little or both. And we
sometimes fail because we are ignorant of his devices.I do not think he minds our praying about things if we leave it at that. What he minds, and opposes steadily, is the prayer that prays on until it is prayed through, assured of the answer." - Mary Warburton Booth

"How we have prayed for a Revival - we did not care whether it was old-fashioned or not - what we asked for was that it should be such that would cleanse and revive His children and set them on fire to win others." - Mary Warburton Booth

"I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself." - Hudson Taylor

"Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, "O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have
done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments." - Daniel 9:3-5

"Our sufficiency is of God. Difficulties melt in His presence. In Him are those mighty, overcoming energies, which accomplish the possible and the impossible with equal readiness.The real
resources are with Him for the evangelizing and the redeeming of the world. But He has not been able to do 'many mighty works' in the non-Christian lands, because of our unbelief as a Church. We have not possessed our possessions. God has been waiting to be honored by the faith of a generation that would call upon Him for really large outpourings of His power." - J. Lovell Murray (SVM)

"Ah, prayer turns trembling saints into great victors! There is no such thing as surrender, or even discouragement, to a man who dwells in the secret place of the Most High and abides under the shadow of the Almighty." -Henry W. Frost

"I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working." - Hudson Taylor

"The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God.It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to
draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth. You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time." - John R. Mott

"I am convinced that nothing less than a mighty Holy Ghost revival will awaken us to a sense of our great privilege and responsibility with regard to the missionary challenge and world evangelization." - Clifford Filer

"You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. And go not only to those that need you, but to those that need you most.It is not your business to preach so
many times, and to take care of this or that society; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as many sinners as you possibly can to repentance." - John Wesley

"And we ourselves are 'saved to save' - we are made to give - to let everything go if only we may have more to give. The pebble takes in all the rays of light that fall on it, but the diamond flashes them out again; every little facet is a means, not simply of drinking more in, but of giving more out." -Lillias Trotter

"Yes, there lies before us a beautiful possible life - one that shall have a passion for giving: that shall be poured forth to God - spent out for man: that shall be consecrated for the hardest work and the darkest sinners." - Lillias Trotter

"Let Christians remember, that in a season of revival as well as in a season of coldness, the evidence of piety is to be sought in the fruits of the Spirit. And let sinners remember that no degree of attendance on means, no degree of fervor, can be substituted for repentance of sin and faith in the Savior..." - William B. Sprague

" I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister - a near relation, a more affectionate Friend; and I rejoice to follow Him, and to love Him. Blessed Jesus! Thou art all I want - a forerunner to me in all I ever shall go through as a Christian, a minister, or a missionary." - Henry Martyn

"If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching  TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!" - Keith Green

"Does it grieve you my friends, that the name of God is being taken in vain and desecrated? Does it grieve you that we are living in a godless age...But, we are living in such an age and the main
reason we should be praying about revival is that we are anxious to see God's name vindicated and His glory manifested. We should be anxious to see something happening that will arrest the
nations, all the peoples, and cause them to stop and to think again." - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival - men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations." -C. H. Spurgeon

"Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a whole system of divinity. Some people preach, others exhort the people, till everybody wishes they would stop, and God wishes so, too, most undoubtedly." - Charles Finney

"Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all." - D. L. Moody

"Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still." - E. M. Bounds

"The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe." - D. L. Moody

"The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray." - Samuel Chadwick

"There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him." - William Law

"We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results." - R. A. Torrey

"You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them." - Richard Baxter

"What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings! Pambus wept when he saw a harlot dressed with much care and cost-partly to see one take so much pains to go to hell; and partly because he had not been so careful to please God, as she had been to please her sluttish lovers. Ah, Christians! what great reason have you to sit down and weep bitterly-that worldlings take so much pains to make themselves miserable-and that you have taken no more pains to get more of Christ into your hearts!" - Thomas Brookes

"If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity." - William Carey

The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent
lack of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the world." - John R. Mott

"There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work." - Andrew Murray

" Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of
evangelizing the world." - A. J. Gordon

"Raymund Lull sought in vain for the sympathy of popes and prelates in his heroic missionary project, and finally had to go forth as a solitary and unsupported herald of the cross among the
Muslims. Today this man's grace and apostleship are so fully recognized that historians of missions ask not whether he heard the voice of the Holy Spirit, but whether he was not almost the only one who heard it, in that dreary and unspiritual age." - A. J. Gordon

"The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modem international and interdenominational missionary structure. Every revival of religion in the homelands is felt within a decade in the foreign mission-fields, and the records of missionary enterprises
and the pages of missionary biography following I860 are full of clearest evidence of the stimulating effect of the Revival throughout the world." -J. Edwin Orr

"The astonishing missionary advance at the close of the eighteenth century and the onset of the nineteenth was a direct consequence of the Evangelical Awakening." - A. Skevington Wood

"Oh, for closest communion with God, till soul and body, head, face, and heart - shine with Divine brilliancy! But oh! for a holy ignorance of our shining!" - Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort." -Samuel Chadwick

"How careful we should be lest we misrepresent a real work of grace because of some things which occasionally may accompany it! When Whitefield was once preaching in Boston, the place was so packed that the gallery was thought to be giving way, and there was a panic in which several persons were trampled to death. But it would be unfair and unreasonable to blame the revival for this. We do not despise the great river because of the sticks and straws that may occasionally float on its surface." - William Alexander McKay (1890)

"In every revival there is a reemphasis of the Church's missionary character. Men return to Calvary, and the world is seen afresh through the eyes of Christ. The infinite compassion of Christ fills the heart, and the passion evoked by Calvary demands the whole wide world as the fruit of His sacrifice." - John Shearer

"I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done." - Hudson Taylor

"Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible."- Corrie ten Boom

"We never test the resources of God until we attempt the IMPOSSIBLE." - F.B. Meyer

"Until we reach for the IMPOSSIBLE through fervent, faith-filled prayer, we will NEVER fulfill our created purpose!" - David Smithers

"Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE with GOD." - Luke 1: 37

"A church without an intelligent, well-organized, and systematic prayer program is simply operating a religious treadmill." - Paul E. Billheimer

"God will do nothing but in answer to prayer." - John Wesley

"The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow ... service is gathering up the results." - S.D. Gordon

"Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees." - Corrie ten Boom

"God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him." - Fenelon

"God will either give you what you ask, or something far better." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?" - Corrie ten Boom

"Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men." - Oswald Chambers

"Our prayers lay the track down which God's power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails." - Watchman Nee

"Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet." - E. M. Bounds

"Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue. God's voice in response
to mine is its most essential part." - Andrew Murray

"Prayerlessness is a sin." - Corrie ten Boom

"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees." - William Cowper

"The Primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ." - Vance Havner

"We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God." - Oswald Chambers

"Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I may be a man of prayer!" - Henry Martyn

"Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals. True prayer MUST be aflame." - E. M. Bounds

"Revival and evangelism, although closely linked, are not to be confused. Revival is an experience in the Church; evangelism is an expression of the Church." - Paul S. Rees

"Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates "in demonstration of the Spirit and of power." - Arthur Wallis

"No man is ever fully accepted until he has, first of all, been utterly rejected." - Author unknown

"The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death." - Martin Luther

"Tearless hearts can never be the heralds of the Passion." - J. H. Jowett

"Brethren, it is just so much humbug to be waiting for this night after night, month after month, if we ourselves are not right with God. I must ask myself  "Is my heart pure? Are my hands clean?" - Comment from the Hebrides' Revival.

"God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans." - E. M. Bounds

"Prayer is the acid test of devotion." - Samuel Chadwick

"It is well to get rid of the idea that faith is a matter of spiritual heroism only for a few select spirits. There are heroes of faith, but faith is not only for heroes. It is a matter of spiritual manhood. It is a matter of maturity." - P. T. Forsyth

"Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die-or if need be, to win and die! "The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by
force." - Charles G. Finney

"What are Christians put into the world for except to do the impossible in the strength of God." - General S. C. Armstrong

"All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!" - Jonathan Goforth

"Prayer and Pains, through faith in Jesus Christ will do anything." - John Elliot

"God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the IMPOSSIBLE." - William Booth.

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