Quotes About Revival

Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

Return, O Power of the Pentecost, return to Thy people! Shed down Thy flame on many heads! To us, as to our fathers and to those of the old time before them, give fullness of grace! Without Thee we can do nothing; but filled with the Holy Ghost, the excellency of the power will be of Thee, O God! and not of us.

All nature awakes to life and activity.

Next, the organization must Recapture the Venture Spirit; that style was natural to the young and just-launched organization, but now it is locked away in the past.

The Spirit puts forth an act of exsuscitation[4] upon the soul, to stir up his affections.

Faith tells the soul what Christ hath done for it, and so comforts it. Hope revives the soul with news of what Christ will do. Both draw at one tap—Christ and his promise.

We have a name for the Second Coming but none for a second coming.

The most striking aspect of the "religious revival" of the 1950s, after all, had been the absence of devotion. Going to church then was more a social than a religious act. In the late sixties faith was expressed by not going to church.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

When democracy gets old and tired, it demands a little chaos to refresh itself.

A spiritual renaissance is long overdue.

An essential part of being truly apostolic is to seek revival, by which we mean a continual atmosphere of restoration and renewal that results in spiritual life, health, strength, and vigor.

Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.

Revival is the eruption of God's heart on a life poured out.

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.

So much as one person with a contrary spirit to God is enough to affect all the meetings - that the revival fire did not flow until that person broke and confessed, or the Lord removed him.

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.

When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.

Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.

Revival is when God's people return to God and God returns to them, and everyone sees the difference.