Leonard Ravenhill Quotes - Page 11

Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.

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

Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated.

The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy

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.

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.

I want to so live that God doesn't have to have to give me one minute's

Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.

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.

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.

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!

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

Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins.

Notice to step out of time into eternity.

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

Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.