Whenever God is ready to do something new with His people, He always sets them to praying.

- J. Edwin Orr

The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion i…

- J. Edwin Orr

Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth de…

- J. Edwin Orr

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…

- J. Edwin Orr

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 hea…

- J. Edwin Orr

No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.

- J. Edwin Orr

History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.

- J. Edwin Orr

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