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Quotes About Revival

God has called the church of Christ to live in the power of the Holy Spirit, and the church is living for the most part in the power of the human flesh and of Willard energy and effort apart from the Spirit of God. If the Churchill acknowledge that the Holy Spirit is her strength and her help, will give up everything and wait upon God to be filled with the Spirit, her days of beauty and gladness will return, and we will see the glory of God revealed among us.
~ Andrew Murray
As a child, Andrew Murray's "world" spanned two continents, Africa and Europe; but ultimately his preaching, teaching, and writing fueled spiritual awakening and revival with a worldwide impact. Andrew Murray was born in 1828 in South Africa, into a Dutch Reformed parsonage. At age ten he and a brother sailed to Scotland for schooling and later to Holland for theological studies, before returning ten years later to South Africa for pastoral ministries of their own.
~ Andrew Murray
The measure of believing and continued prayer will be the measure of the Spirit's working in the church. Direct, definite, and determined prayer is what we need.
~ Andrew Murray
There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of true 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 any very radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work.
~ Andrew Murray
A new Earth and new Heaven.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
no matter how bad things got, we could always make ourselves new again.
~ Sara Pennypacker
Because rain will wash away everything, if you let it.
~ Sarah Kay
The Russian Jews, he concludes, can make an important contribution to the necessary revival of religious feeling. Their totalitarian experience has matured their souls as well as toughened their minds.
~ Saul Bellow
The wild desires no longer win us, The deeds of passion cease to chain; The love of Man revives within us, The love of God revives again.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our passions are, in truth, like the phoenix. When the old one burns away, the new one rises out of its ashes at once.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sempre la speranza di ristabilire l'antica felicità si riaccende nell'essere umano.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
scores of scientists working in widely separated unrelated disciplines are crossing the threshold into the world of ancient science. We call it progress, but Merlin will have the last laugh. Science is inching into magic, and the science of the twenty-first century will probably be nothing more than a revival of alchemy. In
~ John A. Keel
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
~ John Cusack
most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
~ John Dewey
What does remembering ourselves mean? It essentially means coming back to life- re-membering.
~ Gerald Epstein
Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.
~ William Law
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.
~ William Shakespeare
Life depends on change, and renewal.
~ Patrick Troughton
Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.
~ Donatella Versace
Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.
~ Thomas Merton
Who needs the sun, when the rain is so full of life?
~ Madonna Ciccone
Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.
~ Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
~ G.K. Chesterton, Manalive
You must change your life.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke