If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. A canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, and a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus without loss to itself communicates its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day we have many canals but few reservoirs.
– Bernard of Clairvaux –
A God-sent Revival must ever be related to holiness.
– Duncan Campbell –
There will be no great Revival until the people of God are deeply convicted of their need of holiness.
– Major Allistaire Smith –
The evangelization of the world depends first of all upon a revival of prayer. Deeper than the need for men—aye, deep down at the bottom of our spiritless life, is the need for the forgotten secret of prevailing, world-wide prayer.
– Andrew Murray –
Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –
When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, “he trembles” as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.
– RA Torrey –
Holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!
– Nicky Cruz –
We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.
– RA Torrey –
One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour: the church, the true Church.
– Leonard Ravenhill –