Best 212 quotes of Leonard Ravenhill on MyQuotes

All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.

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

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

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

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

A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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!

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

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

Christianity is Christ plus nothing!

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

Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?

Church unity comes from corporate humility.

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?

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?

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!

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy

Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

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

Every step you make in Jesus Christ enrages the devil.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.

He who fears God fears no man.

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

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

How do you learn to pray? Well how do you learn to swim? Do you sit in a chair with your feet up drinking coke learning to swim? You get down and you struggle. That's how you learn to pray.

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

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.

I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!

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

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

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?

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?

If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.