REVIVAL QUOTES

Revival Quotes
by Various Authors www.revivalschool.com

 
"The greatest wisdom on this earth is holiness."
- W.S. Plumer
 
"We fear men so much because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God." - William Gurnall
 
"Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them." - John Bunyan
 
"Making heaven on earth is our business." - William Booth
 
"If your faith can't be tested, it can't be trusted."
 
"When filled with holy truth the mind rests." - C.H. Spurgeon
 
"If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go in offering ourselves to God. We hover around these reservations, making believe not to see them, for fear of self-reproach. The more we shrink from giving up any such reserved point, the more certain it is that it needs to be given up. If we were not fast bound by it, we should not make so many efforts to persuade ourselves that we are free."
- François Fénelon
 
"Is what you're living for worth Christ's dying for?"
- Epitaph of Leonard Ravenhill
 
"One life to live
and soon it will be past.
Only things done for Christ
will ever truly last." - unknown
 
"Some people complain that God placed thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns." - unknown
 
"Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary."
- Thomas Betterton
 
"Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray." - Charles H. Brent
 
"Don't be afraid of tomorrow -- God is already there." - unknown
 
"Your character is who you are when no one but God is watching you."
- unknown
 
"The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is.
The evening services show how popular your pastor is.
Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!"
- Leonard Ravenhill
 
"And When I am dying,
how happy I'll be,
If the lamp of my life
has been burned out for Thee."
- Author Unknown
 
"The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God. It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth. You ask me, How much time? I do not know.
I know it means time enough to forget time." - John Mott
 
"When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words, than thy words without a heart." - John Bunyan
 
'If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the Word of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Him. Where the battle rages there the loyalty of the soldier is proved and to be steady on all the battle front besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.' - Martin Luther
 
"If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't begin; for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegiance. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it's not for you." - K. Arthur
 
"Our murmuring is the devil's music." - Thomas Watson
 
"Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity." - Horatius Bonar
 
"Preach abroad! It is the cooping yourselves up in rooms that has dampened the work of God, which never was and never will be carried out to any purpose without going into the highways and hedges and compelling men and women to come in."
- Jonathan Edwards.
 
"No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse has done his duty.
A defense is required for services within buildings rather than for worship outside of them." - William Booth
 
"The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church...grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil." - Leonard Ravenhill
 
"One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do no constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always."
- A. W. Tozer
 
"It is God's way to let ministers try all their strength first, and then He Himself comes and subdues the hearts they cannot."
- Jonathan Edwards
 
"A man full of hope will be full of action." - Thomas Brooks
 
"We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so."
- J.C. Ryle
 
"Finney preached, and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! That's good preaching." - Leonard Ravenhill