Quotes About Revival

At a time in our cultural history when the West is looking more like the East and the East is covertly trying to emulate the West, this is much needed. Religions are making a revival, but often as a hybrid of western marketing techniques and eastern mythology—a devastating combination of seduction through media and mysticism.

I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.

If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry cleaner's and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and reblocked it and brought it back in the morning. If only . .

Se si potesse portare la mente in una lavanderia a secco, vuotare le tasche, ripulire a vapore, rimetterla in sesto e tornare a prenderla la mattina dopo. Se solo… Montag

Whenever a light blinked out, life threw another switch; rooms were illumined afresh.

altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! 2 Corinthians 5:17

With destruction comes renovation.

Let us teach the whole counsel of God with a joy and passion that comes from above. And may times of refreshing and revival break out all over the land once again to the glory of God.

They must have pumped him full of some high-test elephant tranquilizer, considering how tough it was for Paolo to return to the land of the living.

He is constantly searching to and fro for a people to whom He can prove Himself strong. He wants so desperately to pour out His anointing on people for the purpose of revival. But God knows that as soon as He does, Satan is going to come in with a "mop-up operation" that puts intense pressure on those operating in God's power. And those who can't stand against the devil's attacks will wish they had never been born!

Reconstruction,

Thomas took off his nasty clothes and got to work making himself human again.

After washing himself from top to bottom at least five times, he felt reborn.

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.

Eventually everyone vacates church where God is not obviously present and working. Getting people back to church is pointless unless God comes back first—that's what Vertical Church is all about! Ritual church, tradition church, felt-need church, emotional-hype church, rules church, Bible-boredom church, relevant church, and many other iterations are all horizontal substitutes for God come down, we all get rocked and radically altered, Vertical Church.

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.

Come, gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come.

SLEEP, for you are not yet dead.

Lymond ha vuelto