Quotes about Revival
The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.
— Henry Ward Beecher
[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.
— CS Lewis
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
— George Eliot
The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.
— Os Guinness
How can we have revival when we value a book the early Church didn't have over the Holy Spirit they did have?
— Kris Vallotton
When God becomes routine rather than revival, it's time to switch things up.
— Lysa TerKeurst
America will be saved! That's what the Holy Spirit told me.
— Reinhard Bonnke
Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
— Leonard Ravenhill
If I had 300 men who feared nothing but God, hated nothing but sin, and were determined to know nothing among men but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, I would set the world on fire.
— John Wesley
Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation.
— John Wesley
We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.
— Leonard Ravenhill
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?
— George Lucas