Leonard Ravenhill Quotes - Page 2

The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

You know, people say that today. "I am a saved sinner." That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief, or a pure harlot. you can't be a saved sinner. You are either saved or you are a sinner. He came. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins."

The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

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?

There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.

Someone asked me, 'Do you pray for the dead?' I said, 'No, I preach to them! I think every pew in every church is death row. Think about that! They're dead! They sing about God; they talk about God, but they're dead! They have no living relationship (with God).

God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.

Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?

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.

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

LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!

The only people who want to change the Gospel are those who are unchanged by it.

The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.

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

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?

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

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.

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!

You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.

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?