If it was a sober, rather matter-of-fact, inexorable logic of R. A. Torrey, or the pungent slang of Billy Sunday, or the tender pathos and vivid illustrations of D. L. Moody, the fundamental power was the same. It was the mighty power of the Spirit of God. They had revival because they were anointed to preach. We can have revival, too, if we be but anointed to preach, if we be but anointed to witness. We can have revival because the Spirit of God is the miracle-worker who is always available for the soul winner's power. - John R. Rice
James 4:2 plainly says, "Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not." The infidel, Harry Emerson Fosdick, says that God is not a Santa Claus, that one of the first things we must learn about prayer is that God does not give things. But I know better, and the Bible clearly says the opposite of that. God is better than any Santa Claus; and while He does not give on any wicked whim, God does answer prayer. - John R. Rice
I know that God raised up a woman dying with T.B., sent home from a state sanitorium to die, after years of wasting away. She was healed at once, as far as all of us could see, and in two weeks she was up doing her own housework. She still lives after eighteen years [written in 1950]. I say that I can testify that God changes things in answer to prayer. God does things when we pray aright which He would not do if we did not pray aright. - John R. Rice
I do not wonder that we have seen so few revivals, when we have such little praying. May God send upon His people again the spirit of supplication, the spirit of prayer. When people prevail in prayer, God will give mighty revivals. - John R. Rice
The foolish idea that man descended from some brute ancestry and that man has climbed up from an animal-like state through savagery, barbarism, and civilization to enlightenment is a theory made in the imagination of men. It is not taught in the Bible, and it is not verified by history. The idea that man came through an old stone age, a new stone age, an age of metals, and so forth to the present civilization is belied by facts uncovered by archeologists and ethnologists everywhere. Heathen people did not reach their present state by ascending from brute beasts; they reached their present state of heathen darkness by apostasy and declension, going away from a knowledge of God and light and truth. That is the constant tendency of the human heart everywhere, a tendency toward straying from God, turning away from the light. God said, "My people are bent to backsliding from me (Hos. 11:7). - John R. Rice
Down through the centuries God has proved Himself the God over all circumstances, over all the people, He is the God above all human rulers. "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound" (Rom. 5:20). Man proposes, but God disposes. Man's extremity is God's opportunity. - John R. Rice
What sin, what reproach upon God, what a mark of our unbelief, when we indicate that conditions are too hard for God, that conditions prevent a revival! History down through all the ages cries that it is a lie! All the revivals in Bible times, the great Reformation revival with Luther and Calvin and others, the Wesleyan revival that saved England from its French Revolution and made English and American civilization and freedom what it is today, the Moody revivals and more--these were all brought about in the face of horrible, widespread and flagrant sin, in the face of spiritual decline and unbelief in the churches and out. - John R. Rice
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