Leonard Ravenhill Quotes

There’s a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.

An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.

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.

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.

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

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

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

The longer I live, the more I find I don't know

Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.

Faith is taking God at His Word.

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

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

You never have to advertise a fire.

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.

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

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

A saint is good when nobody is looking.

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?

Every step you make in Jesus Christ enrages the devil.

Isn't it amazing that God gives breath to a man who is going to blaspheme Him all day!

This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

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

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

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

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

Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.

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.

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

We don't preach salvation. We preach forgiveness.

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

Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.

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

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

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

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

Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion

Never have so many left so much to so few.

The world doesn´t believe the Bible, Christians don´t obey the Bible.

Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.

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