Jules Michelet Quotes

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

Renewal and revival often begin when young people take a stand for God.

The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.

We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life.

We have to breathe new life into Europe.

Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.

I discovered that no revival comes if we don't preach the Word of God under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. If we only have the Great Commission and only the Holy Spirit, we have power without purpose, or purpose without power. It is a package deal, and that is what God honors.

What was old can be brought back new, and I bring that to the table. I bring mannerisms, facials, body language, positioning.

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

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

Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.

Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

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.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

I think that the Almighty gave springtime to a tired world so that its peoples might know rest. I think that He gave it to a troubled world so that the world's inhabitants might find peace. I think He gave it to a discouraged world so that hope and faith might be reborn!

The Bible has a very meaningful expression: The Spirit makes all things new. We are those who grow old, and we want everything done to our aged standards. The Spirit is never old; the Spirit is always young.

Now I've gone for too long Living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I

Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.