There is a growing conviction everywhere, and especially among thoughtful people, that unless revival comes, other forces will take the field, that will sink us still deeper into the mire of humanism and materialism.
– Duncan Campbell –
Repentance
A Revival to Cleanse and Revive – Mary Booth
How we have prayed for a revival — we did not care whether it was old-fashioned or not — what we asked for was that it should be such that would cleanse and revive His children and set them on fire to win others.
– Mary Booth –
Revivals Begin With God’s Own People – Andrew Bonar
Revivals begin with God’s own people; the Holy Spirit touches their heart anew, and gives them new fervor and compassion, and zeal, new light and life, and when He has thus come to you, He next goes forth to the valley of dry bones … Oh, what responsibility this lays on the Church of God! If you grieve Him away from yourselves, or hinder His visit, then the poor perishing world suffers …
– Andrew Bonar –
Our Need For Revival – AW Tozer
Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church.
– AW Tozer –
The Irish Revival of 1859 – Oswald J. Smith
In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they could not get back to their homes. Men and women would fall by the wayside and would be found hours later pleading with God to save their souls. They felt that they were slipping into hell and that nothing else in life mattered but to get right with God. … To them eternity meant everything. Nothing else was of any consequence. They felt that if God did not have mercy on them and save them, they were doomed for all time to come.
– Oswald J. Smith –
No Change, No Revival – Al Whittinghill
We want Him [Jesus] as long as He doesn’t change what we like. But any person not open to change is NOT open to revival.
– Al Whittinghill –
If There Is No Revival In the Church … – Al Whittinghill
We end up blaming God’s sovereignty for the sad state of the church. If there is no revival in the church, we can be very sure that the lack is on our part and not God’s!
– Al Whittinghill –
Our Pressing Obligation – AW Tozer
Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. Each generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate harvest.
– AW Tozer –
Therefore Let Us Pass Unto … – Clement of Alexandria
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to [godliness].
– Clement of Alexandria –