Why Revival Tarries

Surely revival delays because prayer decays.

My main ambition in life is to be on the devil's most wanted list.

The only reason we don't have revival is because we are willing to live without it!

Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdra…

Paul was branded by passion. A man must be in the dead center of God's will and walking the tightrope of obedience to call upon the Holy Ghost to bear witness to his witness.

The cost might be prison, for it were better that he should be "the prisoner of the Lord" for a few years than that his fellow men should be the devil's prisoners in hell forever.

Paul's was an exemplary life.

What he is to the inscrutable God is what matters.

Christ conquered him two thousand years ago. Satan fools and feints, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget "the exceeding greatness of God's power to usward."

Yet it is strangely true that we can get more "apparent" concern for people across the world than for our perishing neighbors across the street! With all our mass-evangelism, souls are won only in hundreds. Let an atom b…

Repentance is a change of mind about God, about sin, and about hell!

There is a love constraining me To go and seek the lost; I yield, O Lord, my all to Thee To save at any cost!

Prayer—the soul's blood.

The birth of a natural child is predated by months of burden and days of travail; so is the birth of a spiritual child.

If we will give God time, He will give us timeless souls.

Inspiration is as mysterious as life, for both are God-given. Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

Brethren, to our knees again.

Only when we are thus "dead to the world and all its toys, its idle pomp and fading joys" can we feel the freedom that Paul knew.

The world is not waiting for a new definition of the Gospel, but for a new demonstration of the power of the Gospel.

Prayer is to the believer what capital is to the business man.

Dead to the world and all its toys! Its idle pomp and fading joys! Jesus, my glory be!

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing…

The price is high. God does not want partnership with us, but ownership of us.

Madness, you say? Exactly! A sober church never does any good. At this hour we need men drunk with the Holy Ghost.

At this grim hour, the world sleeps in the darkness, and the Church sleeps in the light.

There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.

Some Christians cannot say when they were saved. But I never knew a man yet who was baptized with the Holy Ghost and Fire and was unable to say when it happened.

The Spirit-filled believer will hate iniquity, injustice, and impurity; and he will militate against all of them. Because Paul hated the world, the world hated Paul. We, too, need this disposition of opposition.

Is life's span so dear and are home comforts so engrossing as to be purchased with my unfaithfulness and dry-eyed prayerlessness? At the final bar of God, shall the perishing millions accuse me of materialism coated with…

An experience of God that cost nothing, does nothing, and is worth nothing.

True preaching is the sweating of blood.

Broken Hearts, Mourning, and Sin. First, "a broken and a contrite heart God will not despise"; in fact, God only uses broken things. For example, Jesus took the lad's bread and brake it; then, and only then, could it fee…

He who fears God fears no man.

The ugly fact is that altar fires are either out or burning very low. The prayer meeting is dead or dying. By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh. What church e…

Prayer makes the soul tender.

(A man escaped from his cell is not free who still drags his chain.)

God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts.

For this sin-hungry age we need a prayer-hungry Church.

The tragedy of this late hour is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.

Oh! my ministering brethren! Much of our praying is but giving God advice! Our praying is discolored with ambition, either for ourselves or for our denomination. Perish the thought! Our goal must be God alone. It is His…

When the hammer of logic and the fire of human zeal fail to open the stony heart, unction will succeed.

We are not Protestants any more—just "non-Catholics"! Of what and of whom do we protest? Were we half as hot as we think we are, and a tenth as powerful as we say we are, our Christians would be baptized in blood, as wel…

We have not yet resisted unto blood in prayer; nay, we "do not even get a sweat on our souls," as Luther put it. We pray with a "take-it-or-leave-it" attitude; we pray chance prayers; we offer that which costs us nothing…

Unctionized by the Spirit's might, John cried, "Repent!" And they did! Repentance is not a few hot tears at the penitent form. It is not emotion or remorse or reformation. Repentance is a change of mind about God, about…

Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal.

And before we can be clean and ready for Him to control, self-seeking, self-glory, self-interest, self-pity, self-righteousness, self-importance, self-promotion, self-satisfaction — and whatsoever else there be of self —…

Jesus said, "Go ye!" but He also said, "Tarry until!" Let any man shut himself up for a week with only bread and water, with no books except the Bible, with no visitor except the Holy Ghost, and I guarantee, my preacher…

Almost every Bible conference majors on today's Church being like the Ephesian Church. We are told that, despite our sin and carnality, we are seated with Him. Alas, what a lie! We are Ephesians all right; but, as the Ep…

It has been well said that there are only three classes of people in the world today: those who are afraid, those who do not know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.

John the Baptist's training was in God's University of Silence. God takes all His great men there.