Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.

What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.

Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.

No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.

Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.

We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.