Quotes About Revival

He urged his audience to get religion not simply for their own salvation but for the salvation of their city and country. Without "an old-fashioned revival," he warned, "we cannot last!" A

Your Word promises, "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land" (2 Chronicles 7:14). The ignition of my revival begins with bowing before You in humility, prayer, seeking, turning.

She is beautiful, isn't she? (Lochlan) Like the first day of spring after a long, harsh winter. (Sin)

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How can we have revival when we value a book the early Church didn't have over the Holy Spirit they did have?

We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of this—the possibility of choice that arises, the ability to craft and discern one's own spiritual bearings—is not leading to the decline of spiritual life but its revival.

Like God's mercies are new every day, the scent of rain washes away what's old and begins fresh.

I developed the unprovable theory that the best things in life begin in the rain.

The unexpected thing, the miraculous thing, is when a car that's been shattered in a crash, that's been left in the rain to rust for years at a time, can be coaxed to growl to a start and slowly begin rolling down the hill.

Who would have thought my shrivel'd heartCould have recovered greenness?

The temples had been deserted and the venerable liturgies forgotten. But this was only one of the ebb-tides in the ever-moving sea of human life. The years of spiritual dearth were followed by years of spiritual plenty. The first three centuries of the Christian era were marked by a general enthusiasm for religion. Christian began in the midst of a religious revival. One

Martin Marty, a young Lutheran scholar, offered further insights into the situation in The New Shape of American Religion, which appeared in 1959. The so-called revival of religion, Marty explained, was largely a revival of "interest in religion." Unlike earlier American awakenings, this one was not primarily a renewal of Protestantism but "a maturing national religion

What's dead may never die.

He who kneels may rise again, blade in hand. He who will not kneel stays dead, stiff legs and all.

Ruins can be rebuilt.

What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.

We were searching to rediscover the first seedso that the ancient drama could begin again.

Tomorrow can be the first day of the rest of your life. All you have to do is to follow Thoreau. Inhabit your body with delight, with inexpressible satisfaction; both its weariness and its refreshments. And

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

As full of spirit as the month of May.

With each sunrise, we start anew.

The sun is new each day.

Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose, new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterward.