Quotes from Richard F. Lovelace

The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.

Spiritual life flows out of union with Christ, not merely imitation of Christ.

Acceptance of Christ and appropriation of every element in redemption is conditional on awareness of God's holiness and conviction of the depth of our sin.

Hell is a conspiracy, and the first requirement of a conspiracy is that it remain underground.

Redemption is participatory, not imitative.

There is particular hope that the Jewish community may be drawn to receive its Messiah once it clearly sees that this will not mean cultural suicide but rather the completed blooming of the vine God planted.

The two models of revival are in reality only one: the expanding of God's kingdom in a liberating warfare against the forces of darkness in which the most important battleground is the hearts of men.

Much of the church rapidly lost the Reformers' consciousness of the noetic effects of sin, the impact of fallen human nature in darkening the unregenerate mind. Later theologians readily forgot that sin generates an unconscious drive to construct systems of understanding the world which suppress the knowledge of the real God, systems which deform and distort the facts and theories they incorporate.

One man's piety is often another man's poison.