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"The greatest wisdom on this earth is holiness."
 - W.S. Plumer

"We fear men so much because we fear God so little. One fear
cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts
to the wrath of God." - William Gurnall

"Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that
reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we
see them we shall find a nest of honey within them." - John Bunyan

"Making heaven on earth is our business." - William Booth

"If your faith can't be tested, it can't be trusted."

"When filled with holy truth the mind rests." - C.H. Spurgeon

"If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are
certain limits beyond which we refuse to go in offering ourselves to
God. We hover around these reservations, making believe not to
see them, for fear of self-reproach. The more we shrink from giving
up any such reserved point, the more certain it is that it needs to
be given up. If we were not fast bound by it, we should not make
so many efforts to persuade ourselves that we are free."
- François Fénelon

"Is what you're living for worth Christ's dying for?"
 - Epitaph of Leonard Ravenhill

"One life to live
and soon it will be past.
Only things done for Christ
will ever truly last." - unknown

"Some people complain that God placed thorns on roses, while
others praise him for putting roses among thorns." - unknown

"Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you
preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary."
 - Thomas Betterton

"Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray." - Charles H. Brent

"Don't be afraid of tomorrow -- God is already there." - unknown

"Your character is who you are when no one but God is watching you."
 - unknown

"The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is.
The evening services show how popular your pastor is.
Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!"
- Leonard Ravenhill

"And When I am dying,
how happy I'll be,
If the lamp of my life
has been burned out for Thee."
 - Author Unknown

"The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here
represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with
God. It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to
draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to
assimilate His truth. You ask me, How much time? I do not know.
I know it means time enough to forget time." - John Mott

"When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words, than
thy words without a heart." - John Bunyan

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-Leonard Ravenhill.

“A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet
reaches your conscience.”

“The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’”

“A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.”

“Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel—and just as empty!”

“John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater
than any of the Old Testament prophets.”

“I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the
United States are truly born again.”

“Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism,
and other sin.”

“There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.”

[Concerning the darkness that has enveloped most of Christendom:]
“When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the
darkness—or you can light a candle.”

“Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.”

“Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for
church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.).
What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time
preparing internally for church—with prayer and meditation?”

“Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.”

“What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have
been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?”

“The only time you can really say that ‘Christ is all I need,’ is when
Christ is all you have.”

“The Bible is either absolute, or it’s obsolete.”

“Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?”

“Today’s church wants to be raptured from responsibility.”

“Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don’t fit our testimonies.”

[Concerning one of the new “movements” in the church that was
causing a stir among Christians:] “There’s also a stir when the
circus comes to town.”

“My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil’s most wanted list.”

“You can’t develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.”

“When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like,
they call it ‘legalism.’”

“We can’t serve God by proxy.”

“We must do what we can do for God, before He will give us the
power to do what we can’t do.”

“There’s a difference between changing your opinion, and changing
your lifestyle.”

“Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.”

“How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don’t even have
the strength to turn off your TV?”

“Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was
performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was
being stoned to death.”

“If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there’s
something wrong!”

[Concerning the fixation that today’s church has with numbers,
with growth at any price:] “The church has paid a terrible price for
statistics!”

“Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.”

“Church unity comes from corporate humility.”

“You can have all of your doctrines right—yet still not have the
presence of God.”

“Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But
do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me,
saying, ‘Leonard, you took Me too seriously’?”

“If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach
today, He would never have been crucified.”

“You can know a lot about the atonement, and yet receive no benefit from it.”

“If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way
excuse us for not following Christ.”

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"Revival is Zion travailing in spiritual childbirth." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the Church of God as a conquering army putting to rout
the hosts of hell." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is torrents of living water flowing out of the individual
believer." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the beauty of holiness adorning the saints."
 – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the recognition of the ministry of insignificant members
of the body, and deliverance from idol worship of the more
prominent members who are in the limelight." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is restoring the years the locusts have eaten."
 – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the people of God constrained, gripped, overmastered,
and overwhelmed by the love of Christ, so that they are feverishly
restless to win souls for Christ." – James A. Stewart

"I believe there is one thing for which God is very angry with our
land, and for which His Holy Spirit is so little among us, and that
is the neglect of united prayer; the appointed means of bringing
down the Holy Spirit." – Brownlow North

"Oh Christians, go more to the prayer-meetings…" – Brownlow North

"From the day of Pentecost, there has been not one great spiritual
awakening in any land which has not begun in a union of prayer,
though only among two or three. And no such outward, upward
movement has continued after such prayer meetings have
declined. It is in exact proportion to the maintenance of such joint
and believing supplication and intercession that the Word of the
Lord in any land or locality has had free course and been glorified."
 - A. T. Pierson

"Revival and change are almost synonymous terms and both
clearly cut across traditionalism. There is no way true revival can
occur without major changes disrupting and reordering the life of
the Church... God is no traditionalist. While God is orderly, He is
always fresh and vital. If a church can run according to forms and
traditions of men, it will run without the presence and power of God...
Is it any wonder the love of tradition is an enemy to revival? Revival
and new life go hand in hand ... Let every church realize that the
inordinate love of tradition is a great opponent to revival ... When a
church slays the love of tradition, a major obstacle to revival will be
slain With it." – Richard Owen Roberts

"To some of you we say, Go forward rather than pray. Think not
that we would, as these words might imply, cast discredit on
prayer. But, beloved our hearts are deceitful, and although we
should at every moment have an upward eye and a thirsting heart
for the guidance and the presence of the living God, still there are
times and circumstances when it becomes almost a sin to pray.
Sometimes it is unbelief that makes us pray, or rather seem to
pray, else what does that word mean, ''Why criest thou unto me?
speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward.'"(Ex 14:15)
 – William C. Burns

"There is no question that God works, often powerfully, in the old
structures. But it is inevitable that those very structures put
serious limitations on His working. It is all too easy for the ground
gained to be lost, for the situation to revert, and for the whole
process to need repeating within a short space of time. Take the
1950, Lewis Awakening. Though confined to certain Presbyterian
churches in the Outer Hebrides, this was a powerful movement of
the Spirit that deeply affected those communities at the time.
Many found faith in Christ, and some of these are now in full-time
service. But the fact remains that in less than a decade you could
visit those very churches where God had worked so powerfully and
never suspect that they had ever tasted revival. Without a change
of structure it is virtually Impossible to conserve the fruits of revival."
 - Arthur Wallis

"If our GOAL is Revival, we will be quite unbalanced when it comes.
If our goal is God, we will be able to walk with Him calmly and
steadfastly through years of waiting and through the joys and
victories of a season of refreshing. Christ crucified and risen is not
only the Door, and the Way, but the End also. It is our personal
relationship to Him which counts more than anything else. Oh, the
need for men and women who know their God! The Church of
Christ will only arise militant, triumphant, an 'exceeding great
army', when individuals get rightly related to God." - Nancy B. Morris

"Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact
that we are too interested in a great display. We want an
exhibition; God is looking for a man who will throw himself entirely
on God. Whenever self-effort, self-glory, self-seeking or self-
promotion enters into the work of revival, then God leaves us to
ourselves." - Ted S. Rendall

"The disappearance of the 'prayer meeting' from the life of many
churches is something which occasions widespread regret, even
among many who would not normally attend. Indeed, the prayer
meeting in which the laity participated freely is a legacy from the
1859 (Ulster) Revival...These prayer meetings were not in many
cases in existence before the revival set in. The very establishment
of them in the first instance, was an evidence that it was spring-
time again in the Church of Christ, and the restoration of them
today would be for her reviving once more." - John T. Carson

"I am tired of hearing the words 'I can't'. Jeremiah said, 'I am a
child'; but the Lord didn't pat him on the back and say, Jeremiah,
that is very good, I like that in you; your humility is beautiful.' Oh
no! God didn't want any such mock humility. He reproved and
rebuked it. I do not like the humility that is too humble to do as it
is bid. When my children are too humble to do as they are bid, I
pretty soon find a way to make them. I say, 'Go and do it!' The
Lord wants us to 'go and do it'." - Catherine Booth

"All practical power over sin and over men depends on maintaining
closet communion. Those who abide in the secret place with God
show themselves mighty to conquer evil, and strong to work and
to war for God. They are seers who read His secrets; they know
His will; they are the meek whom He guides in judgment and
teaches His way. They are His prophets who speak for Him to
others, and even forecast things to come. They watch the signs
of the times and discern His tokens and read His signals." - A. T. Pierson

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“We have lost the sacred art of spending time with God,
and nothing else can ever take its place. No repentance however
deep, no restitution however costly, no sorrow however complete,
can do away with the necessity for a daily time of sacred quiet,
alone with God.” ( Keswick 1946 ) – Gordon M. Guinness

“When our quiet times have become hurried, how can we expect
to give God the adoration that is His due? How can we receive the
guidance that God is waiting to give? How can our hearts catch
the glow of divine fire? How can we have deep fellowship with
those purposes that are really nearest to the heart of God?”
(Keswick 1946 ) – Gordon M. Guinness

“I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next
thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.”
– Samuel M. Zwemer

“I have said that there is nothing in the world or the Church,
except its disobedience, to render the evangelization of the world
in this generation an impossibility…” – Robert E. Speer

“Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront
the workers in every field.” – John R. Mott

“The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of
intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when
individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood
unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.” – John R. Mott

“If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what
mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of
consistent members of the Church are with one accord day by day
making intercession for the extension of Christ’s Kingdom.” – John R. Mott

“The evangelization of the world in this generation depends first of
all upon a revival of prayer. Deeper than the need for men; deeper,
far, than the need for money; aye, deep down at the bottom of our
spiritless life is the need for the forgotten secret of prevailing,
world-wide prayer.” – Robert E. Speer

“The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the
present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather
than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally
deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of
fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and
worldliness.” – A. W. Pink

“Christ is a Savior for those realizing something of the exceeding
sinfulness of sin, who feel the awful burden of it on their
conscience, who loathe themselves for it, who long to be freed
from its terrible dominion; and a Savior for no others.” – A. W. Pink

“Faith and prayer are so inter-linked that faith is prayer and prayer
is faith. You cannot separate them. You could not have the one
without the other.” – A. Lindsay Glegg

“Is the Gospel really dynamite, or does it need all sorts of human
institutions and money? Much of the work we have done in the
name of Jesus Christ has been, not to perform miracles of the
Holy Ghost, but miracles of gold.” –David Griffin

“If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of
God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our
timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a
certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell
men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon
them until they become nervous and awkward too.” –Mildred Cable

“God has called us to co-operate with Him in making the Gospel
known to our generation.” – J. Stuart Holden

“My business is with all my might to serve my own generation. In
doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord
tarry…I have but one life to live on earth and this one life is but a
brief life for sowing in comparison with eternity for reaping.”
-George Müller.

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“Revivals begin with God's own people; the Holy Spirit touches
their heart anew, and gives them new fervor and compassion, and
zeal, new light and life, and when He has thus come to you, He
next goes forth to the valley of dry bones…Oh, what responsibility
this lays on the Church of God! If you grieve Him away from
yourselves, or hinder His visit, then the poor perishing world suffers
sorely!” –Andrew A. Bonar

“In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they
could not get back to their homes. Men and women would fall by
the wayside and would be found hours later pleading with God to
save their souls. They felt that they were slipping into hell and that
nothing else in life mattered but to get right with God... To them
eternity meant everything. Nothing else was of any consequence.
They felt that if God did not have mercy on them and save them,
they were doomed for all time to come." - Oswald J. Smith

“We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game.
Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is
nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism...To your
knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time
flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood.
Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist! " - C. T. Studd

"The love-slave has no pleasure like that of serving his master.
This is his joy, and his very "crown of rejoicing." The love-slave is
altogether at his master's service. He is all eyes for his master. He
watches. He is all ears for his master. He listens. His mind is
willing. His hands are ready. His feet are swift to sit at the master's
feet and look into his loved face, to listen to his voice and catch his
words; to run on his errands, to do his bidding, to share his
privations and sorrows, to watch at his door, to guard his honor, to
praise his name, to defend his person, to seek and promote his
interests, and, if needs be, to die for his dear sake; this is the joy
of the slave of love, and this he counts his perfect freedom."
 - Samuel L. Brengle

"My Lord was pleased to die for my sins; why should I not be glad
to give up my poor life out of love for Him?" -Girolamo Savanarola

"I feel very happy since the Lord called me to step out in faith, and
I obeyed. The Lord is our inexhaustible treasure." -Pandita Ramabai

“Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that
leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we
desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the
hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the
hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the
solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want
of success.” - James Hudson Taylor

“This season of waiting is always an essential qualification for
successful service. God would have His children realize the utter
inadequacy of all human means to accomplish His gigantic
purposes, that thus the praise and glory might be afterwards
ascribed exclusively to Him. The disciples were given ten days to
review the field of battle, to recognize the difficulties that bristled
round on every side, to measure the adversaries' strength, and to
understand their own helplessness and weakness; thus were they
driven to their knees in earnest, anxious prayer. Then came the
answer. The promise was fulfilled, and the power stored up in the
almighty Savior was brought down to His disciples in the person of
the Holy Spirit.” -Hugh D. Brown

“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on
the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside
down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they
bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise,
apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the
old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!” -A. B. Simpson

“It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey,
but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet. It
is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on divine
truth, that will prove the choicest, strongest Christian.” - Joseph Hall

“The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to
seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and
communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right
way, is the right fruit found on it. Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.”
 - James Hudson Taylor

“The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the
hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they
have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle
came...Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before
temptation comes, and you will always have victory.” - R. A. Torrey

“The way to stimulate and provoke others unto good works is to
strive to outrun them in the race. The way to rebuke the cold and
indifferent is to be always full of zeal and ‘abounding in the work of
the Lord’ yourself. Men will be much more ready to answer a call
to come up to your level, than a command to advance beyond you.”
 - Record of Christian Work, May 1909

“A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on
paper.” - Theodore L. Cuyler

“Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God’s presence.
It is vain to say, ‘I have too much work to do to find time.’ You
must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you
the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him.” – A. T. Pierson

“Today comes but once, and comes never to return. We hope it
will come again tomorrow; but it does not. It is gone forever, with
its inexhaustible possibilities, privileges and responsibilities.”
 – Record of Christian Work, October 1908

“Elijah on Carmel did not only pray; he kept his eyes open to see
the rising cloud.” – Theodore L. Cuyler

“With some men it would seem, if they could control God's
operations and manipulate His actions they might tolerate a revival;
but to allow God a free hand, fills them with righteous indignation
and horror. If only God would consent to become an 'ecclesiastic'
and respect their dignity and decorum and beautiful order of service
and ways of running the Church, they might condescend to have a
revival.” – William P. Nicholson

“To arouse one man or woman to the tremendous power of prayer
for others, is worth more than the combined activity of a score of
average Christians.” - A. J. Gordon

"I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach;
 - A minister's highest mission ought to be to teach his people to
pray." -H. MacGregor