If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?
Leonard RavenhillGod 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.
Leonard RavenhillIt may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying.
Leonard RavenhillThe cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!
Leonard RavenhillA man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
Leonard RavenhillI believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.
Leonard RavenhillI 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.
Leonard RavenhillThe true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.
Leonard RavenhillGreat eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.
Leonard RavenhillNo man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.
Leonard RavenhillThe man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.
Leonard RavenhillThe men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
Leonard RavenhillThe 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.
Leonard RavenhillNotice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
Leonard RavenhillChristianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting. It's being tried, found difficult and rejected!
Leonard RavenhillThe surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.
Leonard RavenhillThe Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.
Leonard RavenhillIf we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.
Leonard RavenhillQuit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.
Leonard RavenhillThere are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.
Leonard RavenhillSatan 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.
Leonard RavenhillGet rid of this bunkum about the 'carnal Christian'. Forget it! If you're carnal, you're not saved.
Leonard RavenhillThe 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.
Leonard RavenhillWhat are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can't stick in an hour with God down here?
Leonard RavenhillIf the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.
Leonard Ravenhill