Church Quote by Anthea Butler

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

— Leonard Ravenhill

I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God. I read…

— Leonard Ravenhill

“And praise God, William recovered his health again, if not his hair. He began tutoring students in his shop in the evenings to make…

— Sam Wellman

There is not one particular moment that can account for the shift from the social issue concerns of 19th-century evangelicals into the state of…

— Anthea Butler

Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.

— Vance Havner

“Protestants use a different vocabulary to describe the continuously needed restoring and refreshing in the church. Our two favorite words are “reform,” indicating the…

— John Dr. Fuder

“Americans are a strange breed. We love to preach, and we hate being preached at. In one hemisphere of our brains the sermons of…

— Mark Lilla

John Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society, and his…

— Philip Yancey

There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach…

— Vance Havner

“But Scotty has helped me to realize that once God rescues sinners, his plan is not to steer them beyond the gospel but to…

— Scotty Smith

“If the older churches often found themselves unable to cope with growth and mobility, the newer sects—especially the Separates and the Baptists—did not. Nor…

— Robert Middlekauff

“Regeneration is at the basis of all change in heart and life. It is a stupendous change because it is God’s recreative act. A…

— John Murray