Leonard Ravenhill Quotes

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong!

We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man's God comes and lives inside of Him!

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

We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets

Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.

Church unity comes from corporate humility.

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.

This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!

A Christian who isn't praying, is only playing!

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

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

The self-righteous never apologize.

There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.

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.

A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.

Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God.

Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.

Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions

Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.

Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.

If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.

He who fears God fears no man.

Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.

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

The most shattering thought I've ever had is my personal accountability to God one day

Christianity is Christ plus nothing!

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

Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.

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

Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?

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

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

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

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

The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.

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.)

A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons

The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’

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

We are not eternity conscious enough.

Get rid of this bunkum about the 'carnal Christian'. Forget it! If you're carnal, you're not saved.

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

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

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.

There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.