Revival Prayer Quotes

• 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

  Dream, Moving, Community

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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 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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• 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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• Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Doe, Fit

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.61, Discovery 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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• ...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

  Prayer, Weight, May

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.30, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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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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• A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Revival

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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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• We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, "prayer and fasting." We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God.

  Bonar Law

  Prayer, Fasting, Fellowship With God

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• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, Praying

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.58, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Religion, Trying

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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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• Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Groaning, Missions And Prayer

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms”, p.249, Kregel Academic

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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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• Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Laughing, Kneeling

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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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• Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Believe, Home

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1859 & 1860: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.528, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.

  William Booth

  Fire, Here And There, Different

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• We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Praying, Wits End

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.303, Discovery House

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• Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Believe, Farce

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• 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

  Prayer, Shapes, Matter

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• 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

  Prayer, Mean, Desire

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