Revival quotes:

 

Revival is not the discovery of some new truth. It’s the rediscovery of the grand old truth of God’s power in and through the Cross.
~ Sammy Tippit

 

When God intends great mercy for His people, the first thing He does is set them a-praying.
~ Matthew Henry

 

There will be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.
~ Charles G. Finney

 

Revival is falling in love with Jesus all over again.
~ Vance Havner

 

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
~ Vance Havner

 

The fact is, Christians are more to blame for not being revived than sinners are for not being converted.
~ Charles G. Finney

 

A revival is not a special service or a crusade or an evangelistic campaign. A revival is a refreshing from God, a reviving or existing spiritual life, a fire from Heaven, a moving of God’s Holy Ghost in and upon the lives of born again people.
~ Tom Malone

 

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.

~ Leonard Ravenhill

 

Prayer – secret, fervent, believing prayer – lies at the root of all personal godliness.
~ William Carey

 

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

 

My friend, we must not compromise doctrine for the sake of results!
~ Dr. John Goetsch

 

The world is waiting to see whether professed Christians are serious about their relationship to the living God.
~ Edward E. Hindson

 

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
~ David Livingstone

 

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

 

100 years from now the only thing that will matter in any of our lives is what we have done for Jesus.
~ Dr. Phil Kidd

 

Resolved: that all men should live for the glory of God. Resolved. Second: That whether others do or not, I will.
~ Jonathan Edwards

 

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

 

We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again.
~ G. Campbell Morgan

If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that, 'It is not by might, but by My Spirit.'
~ Jonathan Goforth

 

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
~ Hudson Taylor.

 

We say our prayers, but have we ever prayed?
~ Martyn-Lloyd Jones

 

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

 

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
~ Billy Sunday

 

All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they believed that God would be with them.
~ Hudson Taylor

 

Revivals begin with God's own people; the Holy Spirit touches their heart anew, and gives them new fervor and compassion, and zeal, new light and life, and when He has thus come to you, He next goes forth to the valley of dry bonesOh, what responsibility this lays on the Church of God! If you grieve Him away from yourselves, or hinder His visit, then the poor perishing world suffers sorely!
~ Andrew Bonar

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

We often have a tinted view of revival as a time of glory and joy and swelling numbers queuing to enter the churches. That is only part of the story. Before the glory and joy, there is conviction; and that begins with the people of God. There are tears of godly sorrow. There are wrongs to put right, secret things...to be thrown out, and bad relationships, hidden for years, to be repaired openly. If we are not prepared for this, we had better not pray for revival.
~ Brian Edwards

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

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

A revival, then, really means days of heaven upon earth.
~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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.
~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

True revival is that divine moment when God bursts upon the scene and displays his glory.
~ Del Fehsenfeld Jr.

Revival awakens in our hearts an increased awareness of the presence of God, a new love for God, a new hatred for sin, and a hunger for His Word.
~ Del Fehsenfeld Jr.

The 'glory' comes when God takes over. He fills the church with His presence and power. When He takes over, all the credit goes to Him.
~ Del Fehsenfeld Jr.

Revival is not just evangelism, excitement, or emotionalism. It is the extraordinary movement of the Holy Spirit!
~ Del Fehsenfeld Jr.

Revival, no matter how great or small in its ultimate scope, always begins with individual believers whose hearts are desperate for God, and who are willing to pay the price to meet Him.
~ Del Fehsenfeld Jr.

God wants to avert judgment, and He's simply looking for one person who will pay the price in prayer and in faith and in commitment, whatever it takes, to get a hold of God and not let loose.
~ Del Fehsenfeld Jr.

Revival is the moving of God's Spirit, through the power of His Word, to the hearts of His children, that resurrects to new life those areas which have been lying stagnant, dormant, or out of balance, and that results in new love and obedience to Jesus Christ.
~ Del Fehsenfeld Jr.

If revival depended on you -- your prayers, your faith, your obedience -- would your church ever experience revival?
~ Del Fehsenfeld Jr.

Nothing short of an outpouring of God's Spirit will revitalize and empower an impotent and anemic church to display once again His glory to a lost world.
~ Del Fehsenfeld Jr.

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

 

The spiritual disciplines of 2 Chronicles 7:14 are not just conditions for a true revival; they are the revival itself!
~ Lewis Drummond

A spiritual awakening is no more than God's people seeing God in His holiness, turning from their wicked ways, and being transformed into His likeness.
~ Lewis Drummond

An awakening is ready to burst on the dismal scene when Christians have a deep, profound Spirit of prayer for an awakening.
~ Lewis Drummond

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 Smith

Revival is not the discovery of some new truth. It's the rediscovery of the grand old truth of God's power in and through the Cross.
~ Sammy Tippit

Whether it be in the personal life, or in the church life, or on the mission field, we need revival--we need revival urgently--we need revival desperately!
~ Stephen Olford

Revival is the manifestation of the glory, power, and blessing of the Son of God among His people.
~ Stephen Olford

Revival is ultimately Christ Himself, seen, felt, heard, living, active, moving in and through His body on earth.
~ Stephen Olford

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

Will you pray 'Revive me!' and then open your being to the Spirit of Revival? Do not rest until you have been restored to the fullness of the blessing that God is waiting to pour out in your life!
~ Stephen Olford

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

When God breaks into a life or a community, nothing else matters save the person of Jesus, the glory of Jesus, the name of Jesus.
~ Stephen Olford

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 Rendall

Revival is falling in love with Jesus all over again.
~ Vance Havner

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