Leonard Ravenhill famous quotes

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Men #Intimate

Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Thinking #Judgment #Christianity

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Moving #Church

The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world. The question is not whether they know the Word of God.... The question is......Do they know the God of the Word?
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#College #Men #Tragedy

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Night #Soul

It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Bears #Easier #Crosses

The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Men #Church

The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Church #Titles #Today

John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Miracle #Baptists #Christianity

Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Christian #Men #Hands

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Gossip #Praying

Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Passion #Spirit #Revival

No man is greater than his prayer life.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Men #Christianity

If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Fire #People #Hell

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Holiness #Want

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Two #White #People

Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Responsibility #Church #Want

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Fashion #Prayer #Passion

There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Needs #Avalanches #Sin

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Moving #Exercise

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Church #Vices #World

I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Jesus #Father #Angel

The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Men #Giving #People

The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Truth Is #Brutal

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Men #Soul

The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Fashion #Passion #Church

I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God. I read about Charles G. Finney winning his thousands and his hundreds of thousands of souls to Christ. Then I picked up a book and read the messages of Charles G. Finney and the message of Jonathan Edwards on 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,' and I said, 'No wonder men trembled; no wonder they fell in the altars and cried out in repentance and sobbed their way to the throne of grace!'
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Book #Men #Winning

If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Deception #Church #Way

Easy believeism dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die on. Let those who will not pay this price leave it alone!
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Blood #Pay #Easy

The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Believe #Church #Doe

The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers is considered a go-getter, but to urge our young people to rise at 5:30 to pray is considered fanaticism. We must once again wear the harness of discipline. There is no other way.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Boys #Men #Discipline

The secret of praying is praying in secret.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Secret #Praying

The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Christian #Men #Miracle

Men give advice; God gives guidance.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Men #Giving #Advice

Surely revival delays because prayer decays.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Decay #Delay

The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#College #Men #Miracle

The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Church #Ships #Cruise

Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Jesus #Men #World

If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Men #Doe #Matter

You can have all of your doctrines right—yet still not have the presence of God.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Doctrine #Presence Of God #Stills

If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Men

We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Christian #Men #Lazy

A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Emotion #Prophet #Conscience

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Church #Entertainment

The only reason we don't have revival is because we are willing to live without it!
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Reason #Revival #Willing

You don't need to know the word of God; you need to know the God of the word.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Needs #Word Of God

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Maturity #Age #Obedience

God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Writing #Years #Rivers

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Christian #Prayer #Christian Inspirational

Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting.  It's being tried, found difficult and rejected!
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Balance #Christianity #Found

Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Christian #Prayer #Preparation

The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Power helpeth our infirmity in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Life ends our deadness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Wisdom delivers us from ignorance in this holy art ofprayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Fire delivers us from coldness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Might comes to our aid in our weakness as we pray.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Art #Prayer #Ignorance

There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Two #Kind #Sin

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Book #Reading #Character

When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Taken #Years #Heaven

Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Tired #Sick #Revival

The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Christianity #Obsolete

Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Jesus #World #Christianity

Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Pride #Fire #Lust

Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Christianity #Should #Minutes

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Men #Care

Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Children #Matthew

Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Heart #Giving #Clean Heart

My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Ambition #Devil #Lists

Church unity comes from corporate humility.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Humility #Unity #Church

When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Dark #Light #Sitting

A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Shepherds #Doe #Way

The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#God #Christian #Religious

You won't become a saint by studying your Bible; you'll become a saint by living it.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Saint #Study

Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Night #Earth #Sleepless Nights

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #America #People

You never have to advertise a fire.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Fire

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Wise #Smart #Ocean

Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church—with prayer and meditation?
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Makeup #Clothes

If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Lord

In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Church #Want #New Testament

As long as we are content to live without revival, we will.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Long #Revival

The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#World #Eternity #Taxes

If I don't believe the Word of God, why should you believe it? If we don't believe it, why should the world believe us?
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Believe #World #Should

Someone asked me, 'Do you pray for the dead?' I said, 'No, I preach to them! I think every pew in every church is death row. Think about that! They're dead! They sing about God; they talk about God, but they're dead! They have no living relationship (with God).
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Thinking #Church #Praying

Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Evangelism #Method

Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Views #Names #White

There’s a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Differences #Opinion #Changing Your Life

Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Sweat #Soul

Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Christian #Blessed #Broken

I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Christian #Two #Doubt

If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Doe #Matter #Does It Matter

We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Agonizing #Equipment #Endowment

By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Attitude #Flesh

Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Christian #Dog #Today

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Sunday #Gossip #Tongue

Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Christian #Believe #Jehovah

Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Attention #Affection #Christ

The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Gold #Glory

My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Blessing #Goal #Joy

LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Strong #Lord #Weak

The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Men #World #Praying

Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Doe #World

You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Holiness #Sinfulness

No faith is required to do the possible; actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Atoms #Pieces #Stuff