Quotes that help explain revival

From sermon, Revival is Like Judgment Day, by J Edwin Orr, who saw and studied the history of revival:"Out of that meeting came the Cambridge Seven. Seven university students who became famous missionaries. They also helped Moody while they were in training, in his great campaigns. One of them was WW Cassels, who became bishop of Szechuan." "Now I want to stress this point. You heard of the Shantung Revival. Miss Olive was there. But that revival was felt in every province of China. And when it reached Szechuan, WW Cassels summed it up in five words. Surprised? Five words.""He said, 'It is like Judgment Day.'""Now Miss Olive is right here, and she won't mind my referring to her. She remembers what she saw in China when she was a young missionary. It wasn't hoopin' and hollerin'. It was like Judgment Day! With weeping and confessing." "A lot of people think that revival is a tremendous time of excitement, and a great roll call of converts and so forth. It begins like Judgment Day. With the Holy Spirit exposing all the sins of the church.""Now this is something that we don't realize. That first stage of revival, after the prayer (pause) is conviction of sin.""Judgment proceeds blessing."

AMEN!!! LetsgetbusyHere are a few more along the same lines - “If God ever visits us again in real revival, there will be many red faces as churchmen and religious leaders blush and hang their heads in shame for the silly and stupid ways in which we have tried to promote the work of God in the energy of the flesh by the help of the world." Vance Havner“To the church a revival means humiliation, a bitter knowledge of failure, and an open and humiliating confession of sin on the part of her ministers and people. It is not the easy and glowing thing many think it to be, who imagine that it fills the empty pews, and reinstates the Church in power and authority. IT COMES TO SCORCH BEFORE IT HEALS; it comes to rebuke ministers and people for their unfaithful witness, for their selfish living, for their neglect of the Cross, and to call them to daily renunciation, to an evangelical poverty, and to a deep and daily consecration. This is why a revival has ever been unpopular with large numbers within the Church. Because it says nothing to them of power such as they have learned to love, or of ease of success; it accuses them of sin, it tells them that they are dead, it calls them to awake, to renounce the world, and to follow Christ.” Reference Used-"Revivals: Their Laws and Leaders" by James Burns