Leonard Ravenhill Quotes - Page 9

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

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.

We are not eternity conscious enough.

The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology. She wears the homespuns of sincerity and humility and so is not afraid to kneel!

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

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

The self-righteous never apologize.

Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish.

God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.

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.

We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. 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.

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

I think one of the serious breakdowns in modern evangelism is this: it has offered too much for too little. What we do mostly is offer forgiveness. We need cleansing! There is no true conversion until a man takes up his cross.

At any point in all of Eternity, we can say, 'This is just the beginning.' How wonderful for those who are with Christ. How unimaginably dreadful for those who are not.

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

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.

Redemption is a magnificent thing ..the life of God in the soul of man

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

The only power that God yields to is that of prayer.

This silly world outside thinks it is finished with Jesus Christ but they haven't even started with Him yet.

Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting. It's being tried, found difficult and rejected!

Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

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

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

But have we Holy Ghost power — power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds, and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?