Revival Prayer Quotes

• 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

  Prayer, Men, Soul

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• Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

  "The Tremendous Power of Prayer". Book by Bob Kelly and Charlie Jones, p. 46, 2000.

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• 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

  Christian, Perseverance, Religious

  Samuel Logan Brengle (2013). “Take Time to Be Holy: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring You Closer to God”, p.186, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

  S. D Gordon

  Prayer, Kneeling, Praying

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• 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

  Christian, Prayer, Laughing

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• If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit.

  Jonathan Goforth

  Religious, Truth, Idols

  Jonathan Goforth (0101). “"By my Spirit"”, p.114, Solid Christian Books

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• Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

  Billy Sunday

  Running, Godly, Religion

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• There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work.

  Andy Murray

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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• Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.

  Andrew Bonar

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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• Now let me burn out for God.

  Henry Martyn

  Let Me, God Prayer, Missions And Prayer

  Henry Martyn (1837). “Journals and letters of ... Henry Martyn ...”, p.447

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• Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Tired, Sick, Religion

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• 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

  Prayer, Rain, Men

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• God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

  Royal Gould Wilder, Delavan Leonard Pierson, Arthur Tappan Pierson, James Manning Sherwood (1898). “The Missionary Review of the World”

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• The secret of praying is praying in secret.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Secret, Praying

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.150, Bethany House

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• Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Classroom, Revival

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• Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Talking

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Asking, Kingdoms

  Charles Spurgeon (1997). “Praying Successfully”, p.23, Whitaker House

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• There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Country, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Prayer, Men

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• Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Essentials, Christianity

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• We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Delight, Privilege

  "Purpose in Prayer".

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• A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Growing, Purity

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.76, CCEL

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• Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Two, Degrees

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.21, Bethany House

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• Our prayers lay the track down which God's power can come.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Track, Revival

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• This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Party, Church

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