Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer. — Jim Cymbala
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 Grandison Finney
Revival begins in the individual's heart. Let it begin with you on your face alone before God. Turn from every sin that might hinder. Renew yourself to a new devotion to the Savior. — Lee Roberson
Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power. — Arthur Wallis
Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians. — Vance Havner
Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today. — Vance Havner
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
Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church. — Charles Spurgeon
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
Short Revival Prayer Quotes
I don't want revival...I WANT CHRIST! And if we have Christ, there will be a revival. — Paul Washer
There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience. — Charles Grandison Finney
Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself. — Leonard Ravenhill
The depth of our repentance will determine the depth of our revival. — Frank Bartleman
The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit. — Dwight L. Moody
No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer. — J. Edwin Orr
Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness. — William Carey
The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer. — Jim Cymbala
Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. — John R. Rice
Prayer is the life of the soul. — Madame de Stael
If the only prayer you ever say is "thank you", that will be enough.
Revival Quotes
The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil. — Leonard Ravenhill
A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men. — Leonard Ravenhill
If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified. — Leonard Ravenhill
Sometimes, you just have to bow your head, say a prayer, and weather the storm.
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him. — Hudson Taylor
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan. — John Bunyan
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. — Corrie Ten Boom
Prayer is when you talk to god, meditation is when god talks to you.
God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible. — William Booth
We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results. — R. A. Torrey
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions. — John Wesley
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer. — John Bunyan
Powerful Prayer Quotes
Prayer is powerful beyond limits when we turn to the Immaculata who is queen even of God's heart. — Maximilian Kolbe
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes. — Martin Luther
Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer. — Frances Xavier Cabrini
Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom. — Mary Slessor
They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit. — Frances Xavier Cabrini
The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. — F.B. Meyer
We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth. — Andrew Murray
You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse. — David Yonggi Cho
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Praise Prayer Quotes
Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them. — Shams Tabrizi
The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example? — Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself. — Leonard Ravenhill
Prayer is the key to heaven but faith unlocks the door.
I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself. — Max Lucado
Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ. — Charles Spurgeon
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise. — Alexander Maclaren
God answers all prayers. Sometimes the answer is no.
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise. — Richard Rohr
Prayer gives you opportunity to praise God and to request His divine intervention in your life and/or the lives of others. Prayer allows you to glorify His Name and also provides an avenue for you to be filled with joy. — John C. Broger
Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise. — F.B. Meyer
Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity. — Basilea Schlink
Prayer Meeting Quotes
There are so many people who want to get together to have a great prayer meeting or other great gatherings. Friend, have you ever tried being alone? That is where God will meet with you. Take the Word of God and go off alone with Him. It will do you a lot of good. — J. Vernon McGee
The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. — Richard Rohr
The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God. — R. A. Torrey
If the only prayer you said was "Thank you", that would be enough.
What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct? — Jim Cymbala
The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting. — Vance Havner
Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities. — Steven Furtick
What you cannot achieve with your efforts, you can achieve with prayer.
We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians. — Charles Spurgeon
The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph. — Samuel Marinus Zwemer
There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. — Arthur Tappan Pierson
Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they are believing sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and deliberately affirmed. — Norman Grubb
Need Prayer Quotes
Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs. — Billy Graham
Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires will become our desires flowing back to Him. — Arthur W. Pink
Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life. — Saint John Chrysostom
Prayer is the key of the morning and bolt of the evening.
Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil. — Chuck Smith
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him. — Ravi Zacharias
To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map. — William Carey
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed. — Teresa of Avila
You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to the need in which he may be, at least with your goodwill if you have nothing else. — St. Catherine of Siena
You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers. — Mother Teresa
Good morning, this is God. I will be handling all of your problems today. I will not need your help, so have a miraculous day. — Wayne Dyer
Christian Prayer Quotes
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice? — David Livingstone
The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer. — Barack Obama
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time. — John Piper
Under certaion circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. — Arthur W. Pink
You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests. — Saint John Chrysostom
We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone. — Frances Xavier Cabrini
If the only prayer you ever say is "Thank you", that will be enough.
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things! — Andrew Murray
Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer. — Charles Grandison Finney
I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. — George Muller
Thank you everyone for your kind words, support and prayers!! I'm hurting right now but it's great to know good people have my back!! — Roman Reigns
The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish. — Adrian Rogers
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave — Elijah Muhammad
Never underestimate the amazing power of prayer.
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone. — Ignatius of Loyola
The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good. — James Monroe
It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet that God does not hear us, but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good. — Alphonsus Liguori
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. — Socrates
There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon the simple raising of our minds to God, and the more simple and stripped of feeling it is, the surer it is. — Jane Frances de Chantal
It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God. — Charles Spurgeon
The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer. — Leonard Ravenhill
Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. — Charles Spurgeon
This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth! — Keith Green
A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul. — Charles Grandison Finney
It's true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and faithfully preach those truths which are calculated to bring about a revival. — Arthur W. Pink
Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest. — Thomas Hooker
All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet. — Samuel Logan Brengle
All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them. — Hudson Taylor
Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself — Sadhu Sundar Singh
Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life. — Sadhu Sundar Singh
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. — Leonard Ravenhill
Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails. — Watchman Nee
While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end! — William Booth
Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit. — S. D Gordon
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
The secret of praying is praying in secret. — Leonard Ravenhill
The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray. — S. D Gordon
Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. — Corrie Ten Boom
I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came. — Adoniram Judson
To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them. — John Calvin
Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. — Samuel Chadwick
Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God. — Samuel Chadwick
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer. — Francois FeNelon
He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal. — Charles Spurgeon
Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds
No man is greater than his prayer life. — Leonard Ravenhill
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. — Samuel Chadwick
Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer. — George Whitefield
As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray. — Martin Luther
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. — John Mott
Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. — R. A. Torrey
...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length. — Charles Spurgeon
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