Revival is something altogether different from evangelism on its highest level. Revival is a moving of God in the community and suddenly the community becomes God conscious before a word is said by any man representing any special effort.”
Revival
Jeremy Taylor
Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days, that the Spirit’s power might be manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power.
Tommy Tenney
I am tired of reading about God’s visitations of yesteryear. I want God to break out somewhere in my lifetime so that in the future my children can say, “I was there. I know; it’s true.” God has no grandchildren. Each generation must experience His presence. Recitation was never meant to take the place of visitation.
Tommy Tenney
We don’t understand revival; in fact, we don’t even have the slightest concept of what true revival is. For generations we have thought of revival in terms of a banner across the road or over a church entryway. We think revival means a silver-tongued preacher, some good music, and a few folks who decide they’re going to join the church. No! Real revival is when people are eating at a restaurant or walking through the mall when they suddenly begin to weep and turn to their friends and say, “I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I now I’ve got to get right with God.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When people hear about what God used to do, one of the things they say is: “Oh, that was a very long while ago.”… I thought it was God that did it. Has God changed? Is he not an immutable God, the same yesterday, today and forever? Does not that furnish an argument to prove that what God has done at one time he can do at another? Nay, I think I may push it a little further, and say what he has done once, is a prophecy of what he intends to do again…. Whatever God has done… is to be looked upon as a precedent…. [Let us] with earnestness seek that God would restore to us the faith of the men of old, that we may richly enjoy his grace as in the days of old.
James I (J. I.) Packer
Christians in revival are accordingly found living in God’s presence (Coram Deo), attending to His Word, feeling acute concern about sin and righteousness, rejoicing in the assurance of Christ’s love and their own salvation, spontaneously constant in worship, and tirelessly active in witness and service, fueling these activities by praise and prayer.
Arthur Tappan (A. T.) Pierson
There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.
J Wilbur Chapman
Revivals are born in prayer. When Wesley prayed, England was revived; when Knox prayed, Scotland was refreshed; when the Sunday school teachers of Tannybrook prayed, 11,000 young people were added to the Church in a year. Whole nights of prayer have always been succeeded by whole days of soul-winning.
Charles G. Finney
There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.
Mary Warburton 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.