103 Powerful Leonard Ravenhill Quotes

1. “We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.” – Leonard Ravenhill

2. “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

3. “There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.” – Leonard Ravenhill

4. “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.” – Leonard Ravenhill

5. “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.” – Leonard Ravenhill

6. “There’s a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.” – Leonard Ravenhill

7. “Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne.” – Leonard Ravenhill

8. “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?” – Leonard Ravenhill

9. “The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.” – Leonard Ravenhill

10. “It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross.” – Leonard Ravenhill

11. “God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.” – Leonard Ravenhill

12. “The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.” – Leonard Ravenhill

13. “All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you’ll find your enemies are in your own church.” – Leonard Ravenhill

14. “No man is greater than his prayer life.” – Leonard Ravenhill

15. “You can have all of your doctrines right – yet still not have the presence of God.” – Leonard Ravenhill

16. “You can’t live wrong and pray right.” – Leonard Ravenhill

17. “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.” – Leonard Ravenhill

18. “The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world and make him holy, then put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.” – Leonard Ravenhill

19. “Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation.” – Leonard Ravenhill

20. “If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there’s something wrong!” – Leonard Ravenhill

21. “How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don’t even have the strength to turn off your TV?” – Leonard Ravenhill

22. “Men give advice; God gives guidance.” – Leonard Ravenhill

23. “God asks the best we have Because He gave the Best He had.” – Leonard Ravenhill

24. “The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.” – Leonard Ravenhill

25. “Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions.” – Leonard Ravenhill

26. “An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing.” – Leonard Ravenhill

27. “The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.” – Leonard Ravenhill

28. “At this grim hour, the world sleeps in the darkness, and the Church sleeps in the light;.” – Leonard Ravenhill

29. “Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy. ” – Leonard Ravenhill

30. “The most shattering thought I’ve ever had is my personal accountability to God one day.” – Leonard Ravenhill

31. “The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.” – Leonard Ravenhill

32. “Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.” – Leonard Ravenhill

33. “Never have so many left so much to so few.” – Leonard Ravenhill

34. “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.” – Leonard Ravenhill

35. “When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness – or you can light a candle.” – Leonard Ravenhill

36. “There’s only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that’s a holy life.” – Leonard Ravenhill

37. “The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.” – Leonard Ravenhill

38. “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

39. “Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested.” – Leonard Ravenhill

40. “You never have to advertise a fire.” – Leonard Ravenhill

41. “The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.” – Leonard Ravenhill

42. “There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.” – Leonard Ravenhill

43. “Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It’s a lonely life, but it’s a glorious life.” – Leonard Ravenhill

44. “Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.” – Leonard Ravenhill

45. “If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?” – Leonard Ravenhill

46. “The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.” – Leonard Ravenhill

47. “The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!” – Leonard Ravenhill

48. “The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!” – Leonard Ravenhill

49. “God doesn’t answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!” – Leonard Ravenhill

50. “If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.” – Leonard Ravenhill

51. “Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.” – Leonard Ravenhill

52. “Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man’s God comes and lives inside of Him!” – Leonard Ravenhill

53. “You won’t become a saint by studying your Bible; you’ll become a saint by living it.” – Leonard Ravenhill

54. “Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion.” – Leonard Ravenhill

55. “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.” – Leonard Ravenhill

56. “My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil’s most wanted list.” – Leonard Ravenhill

57. “The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?” – Leonard Ravenhill

58. “Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.” – Leonard Ravenhill

59. “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.” – Leonard Ravenhill

60. “The longer I live, the more I find I don’t know.” – Leonard Ravenhill

61. “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.” – Leonard Ravenhill

62. “If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!” – Leonard Ravenhill

63. “Many of us are hunting mice – while lions devour the land.” – Leonard Ravenhill

64. “Prayer makes the soul tender.” – Leonard Ravenhill

65. “When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it ‘legalism.’” – Leonard Ravenhill

66. “The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding.” – Leonard Ravenhill

67. “No man – I don’t care how colossal his intellect – No man is greater than his prayer life.” – Leonard Ravenhill

68. “If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.” – Leonard Ravenhill

69. “How can you have a dead service with a living Christ?” – Leonard Ravenhill

70. “The secret of praying is praying in secret.” – Leonard Ravenhill

71. “He who fears God fears no man.” – Leonard Ravenhill

72. “I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.” – Leonard Ravenhill

73. “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

74. “If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.” – Leonard Ravenhill

75. “LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!” – Leonard Ravenhill

76. “A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.” – Leonard Ravenhill

77. “We are not eternity conscious enough.” – Leonard Ravenhill

78. “If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?” – Leonard Ravenhill

79. “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.” – Leonard Ravenhill

80. “Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.” – Leonard Ravenhill

81. “Who or what takes priority over God in our lives?” – Leonard Ravenhill

82. “Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!” – Leonard Ravenhill

83. “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 accompanies them. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.” – Leonard Ravenhill

84. “As long as we are content to live without revival, we will.” – Leonard Ravenhill

85. “The darker it gets, the brighter your light will shine.” – Leonard Ravenhill

86. “Only they who fulfill God’s commands have a claim on the Lord.” – Leonard Ravenhill

87. “Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?” – Leonard Ravenhill

88. “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

89. “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

90. “This life is a dressing room for eternity – THAT’S ALL IT IS!” – Leonard Ravenhill

91. “My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF…my GOD.” – Leonard Ravenhill

92. “I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.” – Leonard Ravenhill

93. “Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?” – Leonard Ravenhill

94. “Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.” – Leonard Ravenhill

95. “When the hammer of logic and the fire of human zeal fail to open the stony heart, unction will succeed.” – Leonard Ravenhill

96. “There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.” – Leonard Ravenhill

97. “Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.” – Leonard Ravenhill

98. “Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?” – Leonard Ravenhill

99. “I’d rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.” – Leonard Ravenhill

100. “If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.” – Leonard Ravenhill

101. “Christ cared enough for sinners to die for them. Do we care enough for sinners to live to reach them?” – Leonard Ravenhill

102. “The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it’s death and eternity. Yet, we’re so unconcerned.” – Leonard Ravenhill

103. “There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.” – Leonard Ravenhill

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