Christian Quotes About Revival - Dailyversesbytopic.com

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
– Desiderius Erasmus
Revival | Light

A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.
– Charles Finney
Revival

You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there’s a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Revival | Church | Community

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.
– A. W. Tozer
Revival | Obedience

Let us return to the basic things of the Word of God and prayer and soul winning and revival. Let us pray, “O God, send a revival. Let it begin in me.”
– Lee Roberson
Revival

As long as we are content to live without revival, we will.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Revival

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 Finney
Revival

A necessary pre-cursor of any great spiritual awakening is a spirit of deep humiliation growing out of a consciousness of sin, and fresh revelation of the holiness and power and glory of God.
– John R. Mott
Power | Revival

When there are dissensions, and jealousies, and evil speakings among professors of religion, then there is great need of a revival. These things show that Christians have got far from God, and it is time to think earnestly of a revival.
– Charles Finney
Revival | Apathy | Jealousy

Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer.
– Jim Cymbala
Prayer | Revival

During true revival, thousands of lost people are suddenly swept into the Kingdom of God. Scenes of the lost coming to the Savior in great, and unprecedented numbers, are common.
– Henry Blackaby
Revival

When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.
– Charles Finney
Revival | Hell | Apathy

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
Revival | The Holy Spirit

There is a growing conviction everywhere, and especially among thoughtful people, that unless revival comes, other forces will take the field, that will sink us still deeper into the mire of humanism and materialism.
– Duncan Campbell
Revival | Humanism | Materialism

Revival cannot be organized, 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
Revival

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
– Billy Sunday
Revival

Revival begins in the individual’s heart. Let it begin with you on your face alone before God. Turn from every sin that might hinder. Renew yourself to a new devotion to the Savior.
– Lee Roberson
Revival | Renewal

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.
– A.T. Pierson
Prayer | Unity | Revival

The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Revival

The weakness of human nature has always appeared in times of great revivals of religion, by a disposition to run into extremes, especially in these three things: enthusiasm, superstition, and intemperate zeal.
– Jonathan Edwards
Apathy | Revival | Weakness

Present-day wickedness, apostasy and modern civilization cannot prevent revival.
– John R. Rice
Revival

Revival is not just a feeling of excitement of the Lord. We get excited about many things, but excitement is not a revival if God is not the thing that gets us excited.
– Jerry Falwell
Revival

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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Prayer | Revival | Intercession

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
Revival | Zeal

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
Revival | Consecration

All revival begins, and continues, in the prayer meeting. Some have also called prayer the “great fruit of revival.” In times of revival, thousands may be found on their knees for hours, lifting up their heartfelt cries, with thanksgiving, to heaven.
– Henry Blackaby
Revival | Prayer

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.
– Billy Sunday
Revival | Church

Sometimes we are inclined to think that a very great portion of modern revivalism has been more a curse than a blessing, because it has led thousands to a kind of peace before they have know their misery; restoring the prodigal to the Father’s house, and never making him say, “Father, I have sinned”
– Charles Spurgeon
Revival

I see no hope for a revival among God’s people today. They are so enamored and so cluttered up with Hollywood and newspapers and magazines and parties and bowling alleys and camping trips and everything else. How in the world are they going to get still long enough to see anything from God?
– Lester Roloff
Revival | Apathy

We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God’s way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival.
– Mordecai Ham
Revival

Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.
– Winkie Pratney
Revival | Apathy

When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.
– Charles Finney
Revival

A revival of religion presupposes a declension.
– Charles Finney
Revival

A baptism of holiness, a demonstration of godly living is the crying need of our day.
– Assorted Authors
Revival | Holiness

A true revival means nothing less than a revolution, casting out the spirit of worldliness and selfishness, and making God and His love triumph in the heart and life.
– Andrew Murray
Revival | Worldliness

There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.
– Charles Finney
Revival | Apathy

It’s true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and faithfully preach those truths which are calculated to bring about a revival.
– A. W. Pink
Preaching | Revival

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

The average man is not going to be impressed by our publicity, our posters or our programs, but let there be a demonstration of the supernatural in the realm of religion, and at once man is arrested.
– Duncan Campbell
Revival | The Holy Spirit

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

When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.
– Charles Finney
Revival

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
– Billy Sunday
Revival

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
– Billy Sunday
Revival | Doctrine

We need a sweeping revival where people confess their sins and get right with God, where folks turn out in bigger crowds at the church house than they do at the ball game, and where the old-time religion still gets top priority!
– Shelton Smith
Revival

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.
– Assorted Authors
Revival | Fire

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
– Billy Sunday
Revival | Sin | Stress

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.
– A. T. Pierson
Prayer | Unity | Revival

Christians in revival are accordingly found living in God’s presence (Coram Deo), attending to His Word, feeling acute concern about sin and righteousness, rejoicing in the assurance of Christ’s love and their own salvation, spontaneously constant in worship, and tirelessly active in witness and service, fueling these activities by praise and prayer.
– J.I. Packer
Revival

It’s time for a new Reformation in the Church–to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.
– Ken Ham
Scripture | Revival | Authority

Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
– E.M. Bounds
Revival | Prayer

God takes the field He does a thorough work, but in this connection we do well to remember that it takes the supernatural to burst the bands of the natural.
– Duncan Campbell
Revival

To look back upon the progress of the divine kingdom upon earth is to review revival periods which have come like refreshing showers upon dry and thirsty ground, making the desert to blossom as the rose, and bringing new eras of spiritual life and activity just when the Church had fallen under the influence of the apathy of the times.
– E.M. Bounds
Revival

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
– Billy Sunday
Revival | Conviction | Backsliding