Quotes about Revival
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Francis Schaeffer
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.
- David Livingstone
Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.
- Charles Finney
In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.
- Leonard Ravenhill
A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.
- Charles Finney
Revival is the eruption of God's heart on a life poured out.
- Lou Engle
So much as one person with a contrary spirit to God is enough to affect all the meetings - that the revival fire did not flow until that person broke and confessed, or the Lord removed him.
- Jonathan Goforth
When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Revival is when God's people return to God and God returns to them, and everyone sees the difference.
- Henry Blackaby
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.
- Jerry Falwell
One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
- Jonathan Edwards