Top 269 Quotes & Sayings by Leonard Ravenhill - Page 3

Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.

A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons

Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.

They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should be the attitudes of every believer. That's the normal Christian life, not the abnormal Christian life. The normal Christian life is holiness.

I want to see the glory of God invade this generation.

No man is greater than his prayer life.

Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity

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

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

A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

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

The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth.

Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

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!

The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

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

Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?

Every step you make in Jesus Christ enrages the devil.

This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.

He who fears God fears no man.

Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them.

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

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

A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.

When you're born in fire, smoke will never do.

Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.

Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God.

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

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

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

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

Gethsemane is where He died; the cross is only the evidence.

A Christian who isn't praying, is only playing!

I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity.

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.

I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.

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

Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!

Faith is taking God at His Word.

Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of the Lord in their midst? When they had a normal church life, which meant nights of prayers, followed by signs and wonders, and diverse miracles, and genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost? When they were not clock watchers, and their meetings lasted for hours, saturated with holy power? Have we no tears for these memories, or shame that our children know nothing of such power?

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

Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you needwhen you can say, 'Thou, O Christ, art all I want.' But listen, be careful: it may strip you of everything else you have; you may lose some of your best friends who think you're fanatical; they don't mind you being kind or good, but you become holy and zealous

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

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.

The longer I live, the more I find I don't know

Are you wiser in God (now) than you were last year at this time? Peter says we're to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Get rid of this bunkum about the 'carnal Christian'. Forget it! If you're carnal, you're not saved.

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

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.

God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!

Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.

While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary.

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

Isn't it amazing that God gives breath to a man who is going to blaspheme Him all day!