Quotes on Prayer and Revival V

"Mortification of the flesh is the true place of power in the Spirit." -W. Kelly"

It is not hasty reading, but seriously meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee's touching of the flowers that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon them and drawing out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest, and strongest Christian." - Anonymous

"The day that you decide to fast is the day that you've decided to quit hiding from whatever it is that is in you that just don't care. That you don't care about the naked, you don't care about the captive, the poor, whether anyone is getting saved, whether anyone is getting healed. To even get a shred of burnt out conscience we have to show you movies of starving kids. What kind of walk is that?" - Dave Roberson - 'The Basics of Fasting - Don't Hide From Your Flesh'

"Many people in the world have not rejected christ. They have rejected the Christ they've seen, projected by Christendom. "A lot of things that are being spoken of today as the ministry of the Holy Spirit, it's just emotional exuberance. Because people don't know what is soul and what is spirit..Young people are so often taken up with that exuberance and say, 'Oh, this is Holy Spirit.' It's not, if it were Holy Spirit it would bring holiness. "I'm not against noise, it's a matter of your temperament..if your trinity is Father, Son and Noisy Spirit, mine is not..if you're filled with the Holy Spirit, you have holiness." - Zac Poonen - "A Renewed Soul".

"Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35]."- Thomas Brooks

"God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison." - Thomas Brooks.

"God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6]." - Thomas Brooks.

"It was a choice saying of Augustine, 'Every saint is God's temple, and he who carries his temple about him, may go to prayer when he pleaseth'." - Thomas Brooks.

"Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord." - Thomas Brooks."A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions." - Thomas Brooks."

'My sin is ever before me' [Psalm 51.3]. A humble soul sees that he can stay no more from sin, than the heart can from panting, and the pulse from beating. He sees his heart and life to be fuller of sin, than the firmament is of stars; and this keeps him low. He sees that sin is so bred in the bone, that till his bones, as Joseph's, be carried out of the Egypt of this world, it will not out. Though sin and grace were never born together, and though they shall not die together, yet while the believer lives, these two must live together; and this keeps him humble." - Thomas Brooks.

"The best and sweetest flowers of Paradise God gives to his people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven, a key to let us in to Paradise." - Thomas Brooks.

"If you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but because you never thoroughly intended it." - William Law.