Leonard Ravenhill Quotes - Page 8

Faith is taking God at His Word.

The attitude of the average Christian today is relax and be raptured. But He is coming... and when God gets angry you´ve no idea what it is. Like a thousand volcanoes exploding. He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world and the poor blindworld doesn´t know much about it and the poor blind church doesn´t think much about it now.

Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!

They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should be the attitudes of every believer. That's the normal Christian life, not the abnormal Christian life. The normal Christian life is holiness.

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.

Gethsemane is where He died; the cross is only the evidence.

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

Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding.

The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth.

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.

A saint is good when nobody is looking.

Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.

An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing

The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.

Church unity comes from corporate humility.

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.

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

Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.

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

The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete.

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.

Surely revival delays because prayer decays.