Revival Quotes

I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness.

The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all.

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.

A revival of religion presupposes a declension.

It is easier to speak about revival than to set about it.

Revival is not just a feeling of excitement of the Lord. We get excited about many things, but excitement is not a revival if God is not the thing that gets us excited.

When God becomes routine rather than revival, it's time to switch things up.

History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.

Mr. Tillerson has always been quite a tough negotiator and we understand that he's using lots of information and materials that have been prepared by people in State of Department who, well modestly, speaking are not the fans of my country and of revival of bilateral relationship between America and Russia.

A revival means days of heaven upon earth.

At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer.

I don't want revival...I WANT CHRIST! And if we have Christ, there will be a revival.

Revival is not just an emotional touch; it's a complete takeover!

No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is any problem in the world today -- social, political, or economic -- that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount.

When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways.

The only reason we don't have revival is because we are willing to live without it!

As long as we are content to live without revival, we will.

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

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!

Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God.

Every true revival from that day to this has had its earthly origin in prayer.

At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!

Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.

The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as at the disposal of true prayer.

The depth of revival will be determined exactly by the depth of the spirit of repentance.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

I just want to make music that glorifies the Lord and continue to see revival happen all over the world and to see people meet Jesus. That's it.

A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.

Surely revival delays because prayer decays.

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end!

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.

THE FACT THAT MY DAD IS A PREACHER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING. HE PROBABLY WOULDN'T AGREE WITH SOME OF MY MATERIAL BUT THEN AGAIN THERE'S NO SIGN ON MY COMEDY EVENT THAT SAYS "REVIVAL HERE TONIGHT". IM SURE GOD HAS MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO THAN GO TO MY 8 OCLOCK OMAHA SHOW. THE SHOW IS THE SHOW AND CHURCH IS CHURCH.

Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation.

If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit.

This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.

My message to the world is that until we recognize that peace is not just the absence of war but the revival of life on the "backlines," where women are keeping kids in school, caring for the sick and injured, and daily negotiating space for the continuation of critical life processes of this nature, we're going to continue to miss the point.

Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

Do you sometimes feel that you just can't take one more thing? Even in your misery, be mindful that the very weight of your burdens and the intensity going to use in your life to trigger an experience of personal revival.

Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church which relies for its spiritual strength and growth entirely upon seasons of "revival," will very soon have no genuine revivals to rely on. Our holy God will not conform His blessings to man's moods and moral caprice. If a church is declining, it may require a "revival" to restore it; but what need was there of its declining?

I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.

It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending spree. The downside, which Keegan will soon discover, is the law of diminishing returns in a league that is now the richest in the world. The type of multi-million-pound investment that bankrolled the first Newcastle revival under Keegan is now two-a-penny. Buying success just isn't as easy as it used to be. The Premiership's paradox is that the more money there is, the more the art of management gains in value.

I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.