Revival Prayer Quotes:

At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!

- Leonard Ravenhill

source: Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.138, Bethany House

topic: Revival, Revival Prayer

Now let me burn out for God.

- Henry Martyn

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

topic: Let Me, Revival Prayer, God Prayer

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

topic: Prayer, Rain, Men, Praying To God, Christian Prayer

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

topic: Christian, Prayer, Laughing, Our Prayers, Christian Prayer

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

topic: Prayer, Track, Irresistible, Prayer Changes Things, Locomotives

Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.

- Thomas Hooker

topic: Prayer, Mean, Chiefs, Puritanism, Revival Prayer

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

source: R. A. Torrey, Edward D. Andrews (2016). “CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]”, p.259, Christian Publishing House

topic: Prayer, Fighting, Long, Road To Success, Revival In America

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

source: "Purpose in Prayer".

topic: Prayer, Delight, Privilege, Revival Prayer

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

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Prayer, Doe, Fit, Inspirational Prayer, Our Prayers

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

- Arthur Tappan Pierson

topic: Spiritual, Country, Prayer, Prayer Changes Things, Locality

God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

topic: Prayer, Men, Vices, God Prayer, Revival In America

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

topic: Prayer, Men, Soul, Praying To God, Hungry For Knowledge

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Inspirational, Praying, Lord, Prayer Changes Things, I Pray

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

- Oswald Chambers

source: Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.36, Discovery House

topic: Prayer, Eye, Christian Inspirational, Praying To God, I Pray

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

- Samuel Chadwick

topic: Laughing, Toil, Praying, Our Prayers, Christian Prayer

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

topic: Dream, Moving, Community, Revival Prayer

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

topic: Prayer, Godly, Firsts, Missions And Prayer, Christian Ministry

Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to 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.

- Sadhu Sundar Singh

topic: Men, Self, Effort, Looking For A Man, Revival Prayer

God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

topic: Prayer, Heaven, Saint, Deathless, Inspirational Prayer

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

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

topic: Prayer, Littles, Praying, Our Prayers, Christian Ministry

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

topic: Fall, Home, Men, Revival Prayer

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

- William Cowper

source: William Cowper, “Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer”

topic: Prayer, Knees, Saint, Inspirational Prayer, Intercessory Prayer

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

- S. D Gordon

topic: Prayer, Praying, Inspirational Prayer, Sacrifice To God, Christian Prayer

No man is greater than his prayer life.

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Prayer, Men, Christianity, Christian Life, Showing Off

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.

- William Booth

topic: Faith, Passion, Heart, Bursting, Revival In America

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

- Corrie Ten Boom

source: Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

topic: Faith, Believe, Impossible, Jesus Inspirational, Revival In America

Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

source: Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.30, CCEL

topic: Prayer, Honor, Aids, Christian Prayer, Revival Prayer

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

source: Edward McKendree Bounds (1977). “Prayer and Praying Men”, Baker Publishing Group (MI)

topic: Prayer, Mind, Answers, Our Prayers, God Prayer

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

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

topic: Intercession, Revival Prayer

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

- John Wesley

source: John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”

topic: Giving, Heaven, Desire, Kingdom Of Heaven, Layman

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

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Tired, Sick, Revival, Revival Prayer

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

- J. Sidlow Baxter

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

topic: Prayer, Men, Messages, Inspirational Prayer, Thoughts And Prayers

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Christian, Prayer, Godly, I Pray, God Help Me

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

topic: Giving, Church, Trying, Old Time, World Upside Down

...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

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

topic: Christian Prayer, Intercession, Revival Prayer

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

- John Bunyan

source: John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.96

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Men, Prayer Changes Things, Christian Prayer

Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win and die! The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

- Charles Grandison Finney

topic: Winning, Heaven, Soul, Revival Prayer

This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!

- Keith Green

topic: Christian, Soul, This Generation, Soul Winning, Inspirational Missionary

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

topic: Prayer, Men, Church, Strongholds, Man Of God

Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer!

- Henry Martyn

topic: Prayer, Men, May, Burn Out, Revival Prayer

Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.

- S. D Gordon

topic: Prayer, Vision, Nerves, Revival Prayer

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

- John Bunyan

topic: Prayer, Sacrifice, Soul, Praying To God, Inspirational Prayer

Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

- John Calvin

topic: Powerful, Prayer, Men, Our Prayers, Intercession

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

topic: Christian, Brother, Prayer, Our Prayers, Prayer And Fasting

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

topic: Prayer, Sacrifice, Soul, Sacrifice To God, Intercession

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Prayer, Secret, Praying, Revival Prayer, Sinning

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

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Men, Intercession, Revival Prayer

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

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Prayer, Groaning, Revival Prayer