Top 39 Church Revival Sayings: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Church Revival

#1. The purpose of revival is to fire the church with divine energy for her divine assignment. Revival will tear us away from our temporal pursuits to give ourselves for what really matters.Revival will not occur without prayer. Prevailing prayer is always antecedent to revival.

David Shibley

#2. My Heart burns with a never ending deep passion for Jesus Christ. My Heart longs and even aches for the American church to be in Revival

Joe Joe Dawson

#3. A church should be a camp of soldiers, not an hospital of invalids. But there is exceedingly much difference between what ought be and what is, and consequently many of God's people are in so sad a state that the very fittest prayer for them is for revival.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.

Andy Stanley

#5. God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.

Leonard Ravenhill

#6. If we truly long for revival, we will rejoice even when it starts at the church down the road.

Kevin DeYoung

#7. What time do we start?" I resisted the urge to grin. "Show up at the New Living Hope Revival Church at ten tomorrow morning." His eyes flew open. "Ten? That early?" "Half the world's awake by ten, and the other half is sleeping in China.

Denise Grover Swank

#8. 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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#9. A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.

Douglas Wilson

#10. Many weeks ago, the Holy Spirit told me to watch the dates "March 8 to April 8." He was speaking to me about how beginning with March 8, there was a new season of revival and fruitfulness for the Church. That this would be a new time of fresh visitation.

Todd Bentley

#11. Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.

Vance Havner

#12. The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

Leonard Ravenhill

#13. the primary responsibility of any pastor or preacher who desires revival in a Church is to see that all the members are led to genuine repentance and heart faith. A corpse cannot be revived! We have too many unconverted or unsaved persons both in our pulpits and pew today.

R. Stanley

#14. A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

Billy Sunday

#15. When the church really takes on the humble characteristics of Christ, that's going to lead to revival.

Francis Chan

#16. When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is in truth a ritual of renewal and revival on an intimate scale - a small rebirth of well-being on a daily basis.

Robert Fulghum

#17. Almost All Christians want to taste the fruits of revival but only a few will do what's necessary to achieve it.

Joe Joe Dawson

#18. The prayer level of a church never rises any higher than the personal example and passion of the leaders. The quantity and quality of prayer in leadership meetings is the essential indicator of the amount of prayer that will eventually arise among the congregation.

Daniel Henderson

#19. The church holds the key to revival. It is within our grasp.

Billy Graham

#20. Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.

Andy Stanley

#21. For every Gospel action, there is an opposite and devious demonic reaction. We see this in the book of Acts. It appears in church history. We experience it in our personal journeys.

Daniel Henderson

#22. If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#23. Not, "He shall one day grant a revival, and then next day leave His Church to barrenness." His eyes never slumber, and His hands never rest; His heart never ceases to beat with love, and His shoulders are never weary of carrying His people's burdens.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#24. If Your church says they want revival, check out their midweek prayer service. Someone may be lying

Joe Joe Dawson

#25. 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.

Billy Sunday

#26. When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.

Charles Grandison Finney

#27. I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#28. [R]eal prayer is not an excuse for laziness but, in fact, is one of the most arduous engagements I know of in ministry. Prayer is not a replacement for hard work but, in most cases, empowerment for even more fruitful work.

Daniel Henderson

#29. If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.

David Lloyd-Jones

#30. When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.

Charles Grandison Finney

#31. In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

Leonard Ravenhill

#32. The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#33. How can we have revival when we value a book the early Church didn't have over the Holy Spirit they did have?

Kris Vallotton

#34. The idea that the Lord wanted me to make prayer such a driving emphasis seemed counterintuitive to positioning the church for revival. How could it be that quite possibly the most unpopular activity in church culture could become a birthing center for a history-making move of the Holy Spirit?

Michael Brown