Top 269 Quotes & Sayings by Leonard Ravenhill

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

Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

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).

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."

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.

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

In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

The most shattering thought I've ever had is my personal accountability to God one day

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

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.

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!!!

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross.

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

The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.

When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'

All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.

Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.

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!

There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.

Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.

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.

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.

The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.

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 a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!

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.

The only people who want to change the Gospel are those who are unchanged by it.

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

If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.

You can't live wrong and pray right.

There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.

Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?

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

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

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.

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

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

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.

We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.

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?

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

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

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

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life.

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 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.

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

A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.

How do you learn to pray? Well how do you learn to swim? Do you sit in a chair with your feet up drinking coke learning to swim? You get down and you struggle. That's how you learn to pray.

If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.

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

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

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

You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.

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