Leonard Ravenhill Quotes
If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.
If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.
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.
I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.
Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.
I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?
How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.
Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.
Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.
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.
The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.
The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.
All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.
Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.
The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!
The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.
You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.
Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?
The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.
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!
The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.
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.
When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
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?
You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.
A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.
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!
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.
Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.
The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.