Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill
Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
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.
Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.
In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.
If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.
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).
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'?
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.
Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.
There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are!
The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
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?
The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!
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.
Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!
Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice! It's not a glamous gospel ,but a bloody gospel, a gory gospel, and a sacrificial gospel! 5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more, prayed more, given more!!!
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
You know, people say that today. "I am a saved sinner." That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief, or a pure harlot. you can't be a saved sinner. You are either saved or you are a sinner. He came. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins."
Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?
The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.
There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.
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.