Leonard Ravenhill Quotes - Page 7

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

The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world. The question is not whether they know the Word of God.... The question is......Do they know the God of the Word?

Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.

You don't need to know the word of God; you need to know the God of the word.

Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

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

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

There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.

The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.

Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God.

Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians

I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity.

Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.

The only vision (many) of you have is television.

The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'

You never have to advertise a fire.

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

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

I want to see the glory of God invade this generation.

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

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.

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.

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

Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?