Top 269 Quotes & Sayings by Leonard Ravenhill - Page 4

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology. She wears the homespuns of sincerity and humility and so is not afraid to kneel!

How can you have a dead service with a living Christ?

The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.

The darker it gets, the brighter your light will shine.

The attitude of the average Christian today is relax and be raptured. But He is coming... and when God gets angry you´ve no idea what it is. Like a thousand volcanoes exploding. He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world and the poor blindworld doesn´t know much about it and the poor blind church doesn´t think much about it now.

A saint is good when nobody is looking.

Church unity comes from corporate humility.

Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

No church group that knows spiritual warfare has wiener roasts or even passion plays. There is a real warfare. I have said before that we are an arrogant, self-styled bunch of believers. We "believe" to the point of inconvenience - and then quit.

I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church and sin-- it's a monstrous problem.

Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.

Redemption is a magnificent thing ..the life of God in the soul of man

At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!

Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.

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.

We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.

Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion

Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.

Surely revival delays because prayer decays.

Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.

Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!

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.

Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.

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

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

Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies.

Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?

This silly world outside thinks it is finished with Jesus Christ but they haven't even started with Him yet.

The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll; and no man can cross another's name off that roll.

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

The self-righteous never apologize.

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

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

Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.

We don't preach salvation. We preach forgiveness.

We must live a holy life if we want to pray.

At any point in all of Eternity, we can say, 'This is just the beginning.' How wonderful for those who are with Christ. How unimaginably dreadful for those who are not.

When are people finally going to get serious about being serious?

The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.

But have we Holy Ghost power — power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds, and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?

I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God

An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing

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

You never have to advertise a fire.

Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding.

Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation.

The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.

Praying Christians know nothing of their friends

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?

Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.

We are not eternity conscious enough.

Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

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

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?

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

I think one of the serious breakdowns in modern evangelism is this: it has offered too much for too little. What we do mostly is offer forgiveness. We need cleansing! There is no true conversion until a man takes up his cross.

Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!