Top 269 Quotes & Sayings by Leonard Ravenhill - Page 2

You know, we're the most undisciplined generation the world has ever knownhow many of you are disciplined? How many go to bed at the same time every night, get up every morning at the same time? How do you discipline your appetites, how do you discipline your tongue? We're the most weak, effeminate Christianity the world has ever had-no wonder nobody wants it. It has no strength, it has no character

We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!

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

You must be much WITH God before you can be much FOR God.

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

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.

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

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

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

God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.

If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.

Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.

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

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

If there are a million roads into hell, there's not one road out.

I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.

The only vision (many) of you have is television.

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

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

We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets

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

God asks the best we have Because He gave the Best He had.

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?

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.

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

What are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can't stick in an hour with God down here?

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

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

If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong!

Holiness is not a luxury, it's a necessity. If you're not holy, you'll never make it to Heaven [Heb. 12:14].

The question isn't were you challenged. The question is were you changed?

The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.

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

I believe the place of prayer is not only a place where I lose my burdens, but also a place where I get a burden. He shares my burden and I share His burden. ... To know that burden, we must hear the voice of the Spirit. To hear that voice, we must be still and know that He is God.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.

One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say `I cast out devils, and Jesus will say `I never knew you.

Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.

If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.

This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

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?

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'?

If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and so preached, I got baptized and...' Are you saved? What are you saved from, hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from cheating? Are you saved from lying? Are you saved from bad manners? Are you saved from rebellion against your parents? Come on, what are you saved from?

To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along with tears. Can one be moved with compassion and not know tears? Jeremiah was a sobbing saint. Jesus wept! So did Paul. So did John. Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern Christianity, praying is foreign.

Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man's God comes and lives inside of Him!

Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility.

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?

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.

Men give advice; God gives guidance.

To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.

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

Christ cared enough for sinners to die for them. Do we care enough for sinners to live to reach them?

The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?

The first essential for the coming of the Holy Ghost into a heart today is that the heart should be cleansed from sin, for the Holy Spirit does not fill an unclean heart. What God has cleansed, He then fills. Finally, whom God fills, He uses. A holy life is the authentic sign of being filled with the Spirit.

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

Christianity is Christ plus nothing!

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

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!'