Arthur Wallis Quotes & Sayings

Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned. — Arthur Wallis

If you would do the best with your life, find out what God is doing in your generation and throw yourself wholly into it. — Arthur Wallis

Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. — Arthur Wallis

Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah. — Arthur Wallis

All the mighty interceding of the ages that has ever shaken the kingdom of darkness has been based upon the promises of God. — Arthur Wallis

Fasting is calculated to bring a note of urgency and importance into our praying, and to give force to our pleading in the court of heaven. The man who prays with fasting is giving heaven notice that he is truly in earnest. — Arthur Wallis

When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that he means business, that he is seeking with all his heart, and will not let God go unless He answers. — Arthur Wallis

The crowning blessing of a true visitation of the Holy Spirit is a mighty harvest for the kingdom of God. — Arthur Wallis

Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power. — Arthur Wallis

What awe must have come to the hearts of that waiting band as they listened to that "sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind" - what a sense of the irresistible power of God! But there was also the appearance of "tongues parting asunder, like as of fire." Fire typifies the activity of God's holiness in relation to sin; fire consumes and fire purifies. When the Spirit came upon Christ, it was not as the fire but "as a dove," for there was no sin in Him, as the Father then declared, "Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased" (Luke 3:22). But here the tongues "like as of fire" sat upon each of them, bringing not only a sense of the infinite holiness of God but of the activity of that holiness in dealing with all that was unholy in themselves. — Arthur Wallis

I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chron. 7:14). — Arthur Wallis

Strange though it may seem, there are distinct similarities between the ways of God in revival and in judgment ... Because of His very nature, God cannot and will not permit spiritual decline to continue unchecked. He is ever halting and reversing the trend of the times by means of revival - or judgment. Where His people are not prepared for the one, they shut themselves up to the other. — Arthur Wallis

At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer. — Arthur Wallis

I feel very happy since the Lord called me to step out in faith, and I obeyed. The Lord is our inexhaustible treasure. — Arthur Wallis