Ravenhill Quotes

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

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. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

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

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

We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

Every step you make in Jesus Christ enrages the devil. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

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

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for? ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

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

Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle! ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

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. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

We are not Protestants any more - just 'non-Catholics'! Of what and of whom do we protest? Were we half as hot as we think we are, and a tenth as powerful as we say we are, our Christians would be baptized in blood, as well as in water and in fire. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts. - F. LINCICOME ~ Leonard Ravenhill

To copy copies is not normally safe, but it is safe to copy Paul, for he was fully surrendered, wholly sanctified, completely satisfied, ~ Leonard Ravenhill

If you kneel before God, you will stand before men. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

Some preachers master thier subjects; some subjects master the preacher; once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of, and also mastered by his subject. The apostle Paul, I am sure, was in that category. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them; they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

And I think a long time ago there were big stories. Stories so big you could live your whole life in them. The Powerful Hands of the Gods and Fate. The Journey to Enlightenment. The March of Socialism. But they all died or the world grew up or grew senile or forgot them, so now we're making up our own stories. Little stories. But we've each got one. ~ Mark Ravenhill

Who or what takes priority over God in our lives? ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

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

Maybe you are the key to revival in your church. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

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

Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer! ~ Leonard Ravenhill

The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

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

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. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

You can have all of your doctrines right - yet still not have the presence of God. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

When are people finally going to get serious about being serious? ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

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

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

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

No faith is required to do the possible; actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

If Jesus came back today, he wouldn't cleanse the temple, he'd cleanse the pulpit. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

When you're sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness - or you can light a candle. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

He who fears God fears no man. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

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

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

Today God is bypassing men - not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents our stumbling blocks! ~ Leonard Ravenhill

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

You can't live wrong and pray right. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Faith is taking God at His Word. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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! ~ Leonard Ravenhill

If we will do God's work in God's way at God's time with God's power, we shall have God's blessing ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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? ~ Leonard Ravenhill

On all this Bilbo looked with misery. He had taken his stand on Ravenhill among the Elves - partly because there was more chance of escape from that point, and partly (with the more Tookish part of his mind) because if he was going to be in a last desperate stand, he preferred on the whole to defend the Elvenking. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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? ~ Leonard Ravenhill

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

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? ~ Leonard Ravenhill