Jim Burns Quotes

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

God is shaking me.

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by radical amendment of life; not before.

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.

GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.

Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase.

God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

We are not revived because we sing; we sing because we are revived.

Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.

Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.

If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.

Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.