Quotes about Revival

I will give them one heart [a new heart] and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony [unnaturally hardened] heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh [sensitive and responsive to the touch of their God]… EZEKIEL 11:19

When revival comes to the human heart, it's a torrent, it's a cascade, it's a deluge. It's a downpour!

Revival is renewed interest after a period of indifference or decline. He wants to wake us up, to refresh our faith—to fire us up again.

Revival is not emotional extravagance where people are caught up in the moment and fall down, act bizarrely, unbiblically, and out of control. That's not revival.

Revival is: God, gladly at the center of my life, experienced and enjoyed.

Times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:20).

The first step in personal revival is to get God in His rightful place. When God is recognized as being above me, beyond me, highly exalted, over me, and totally separate from me, I am getting in position for a downpour. When I embrace God for who He is and I understand who I am—when I know God's place, I can know my place—then things start to fall into place. That's what God's holiness does for us—it puts everything and everyone in their rightful place.

Revival begins here: with a profound awareness of God's absolute holiness, our absolute sinfulness, and our complete inability to bridge the divide that separates us.

True revival can only be ignited by God, but God will always move through men.

Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.

I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.

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