Revivalist Quotes

“Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader

“Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.
How diligently they read them!
Here they find their law and profits,
their judges and chronicles,
their epistles and revelations.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“God does not patch up the old life,
or make certain repairs on the old life;
He gives a new life, through the new birth.”
― Kathryn Kuhlman

“If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go.”
― A. A. Allen

“Fear cannot stay in the same house as Jesus Christ.”
― Jack Coe

“Lift up your heads, ye people,
lift up your faces, too,
open your mouths to sing His praise,
and the rain will fall on you.”
― Aimee Semple McPherson

“We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,
or our faith or lack of faith,
but only with what God has said”
― Gordon Lindsay

“My tears were wiped away, my heart was strong, I saw the way of healing…I said, “God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how ‘tis Satan still defiles, and Jesus still delivers, for He is just the same today.”
― John Alexander Dowie

“Before your greatest victories, you will always fight your greatest battles. Stay in the Fight.”
― Joe Joe Dawson

“{Stockton, a playwright who performed plays about Robert Ingersoll, gives the four moments in Ingersoll's life that shaped him, first being the death of his father, who was a reverend}

Despite their opposing religious views, the old revivalist on his deathbed asked Bob to read to him from the black book clutched to his chest. Bob relented, took the book, and was surprised to discover that it wasn't the Bible. It was Plato describing the noble death of the pagan Socrates: a moving gesture of reconciliation between father and son in parting. The second event was Bob’s painful realization that his outspoken agnosticism not only invalidated his own political career but ended his brother Ebon’s career in Congress, as well. Third was the exquisite anguish of seeing his supportive wife Eva and his young daughters made to suffer for his right to speak his own mind. And fourth was the dramatic tension of having to walk out alone on public stages, in a glaring spotlight, time after time with death threats jammed in his tuxedo pocket informing him that some armed bigot in that night’s audience would see to it that he didn't leave the stage alive.”
― Richard F. Stockton

“We need more Contending and less Blending and Pretending”
― Joe Joe Dawson

“You cannot sustain a revival if you are not in a constant state of revival.”
― Paul Brady

“Every great vision begins with a heavy burden in the heart of a visionary. Any vision that never begins with a burden is a mere fantasy and will not carry any fire that’s capable of driving a change agent or the revivalist.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“From fish kin to an elephant kid everyone knows survival but only a wounded lion knows its revival”
― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“If you are not advancing in God, this world is advancing against you.”
― Paul Brady

“Expect a divine interception.”
― Paul Brady

“When you see an inward fire burning, it cannot make you stay at ease (see Jeremiah 20:9) until you respond to the call.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Make no mistake about it; the Spirit of God in you wants to kindle an inferno of God's Holy Fire that will spread to the hearts of multitudes across the globe.”
― Sebastien Richard, Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus

“You can't be given to fasting and your prayer life will be weak.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Those that God will use for revival in our time are vessels who have intensified desperation that cannot hold back. They are simply ordinary people whose bones have been burning with an internal holy fire.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“No matter how greatly we desire it, we can only see revival coming again when we begin to seek God to give us Burden+Vision=Passion for souls and awakening of the Lord’s people.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Great move of God require great obedience to the ways of the Spirit.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“I believe that we so rarely see revival historically, because we so rarely see a group of people who love Jesus more than themselves.”
― Jessi Green, Saturate: Leaving behind Status Quo Religion for a Faith That Really Works