J. Edwin Orr famous quotes

03-28-2025

History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.
-- J. Edwin Orr

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God Who delivers us from the guilt of sin through faith in Jesus Christ, is able to deliver the believer from the power of sin as well.
-- J. Edwin Orr

#Jesus #Guilt #Able
Whenever God is ready to do something new with His people, He always sets them to praying.
-- J. Edwin Orr

#People #Praying #Something New
We donâ€™t have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. Heâ€™s for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.
-- J. Edwin Orr

#Heart #Answers #Praying
No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.
-- J. Edwin Orr

#Spiritual #Prayer #World
The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the homelands is felt within a decade in the foreign mission-fields, and the records of missionary enterprises and the pages of missionary biography following I860 are full of clearest evidence of the stimulating effect of the Revival throughout the world.
-- J. Edwin Orr

#Foundation #Missionary #Records
It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.
-- J. Edwin Orr

#Country #Divorce #College
Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result.
-- J. Edwin Orr

#Christian #Spiritual #People
We don’t have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He’s for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.
-- J. Edwin Orr

#Heart #Answers #Praying

I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.
There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.
Ooh, the silent treatment.
Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.
When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
There is no revival possible in any fellowship without a price being paid.
Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.
You have the same DNA as the greats of the past who started revivals.

J. Edwin Orr famous quotes

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