Why the Church doesn't have revival

“We don’t have revival because the church does not feel the need for revival as it should....Is it not more reasonable to ask how any of us can read and hear the Word of God without its having any effect upon us? It may be answered: Because we do not consider that it is the Word of God. Because we do not believe that they are words about real things, and not falsehoods and fables.”

-- John Elias, 1774-1841 (John Elias: Life and Letters (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1980)