Leonard Ravenhill Quotes

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

When you're born in fire, smoke will never do.

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

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

Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.

There’s a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.

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.

We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

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

You know, we're the most undisciplined generation the world has ever knownhow many of you are disciplined? How many go to bed at the same time every night, get up every morning at the same time? How do you discipline your appetites, how do you discipline your tongue? We're the most weak, effeminate Christianity the world has ever had-no wonder nobody wants it. It has no strength, it has no character

You won't become a saint by studying your Bible; you'll become a saint by living it.

Christianity is Christ plus nothing!

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

To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.

A saint is good when nobody is looking.

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.

The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?

Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them.

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

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.)

God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.

Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.

You never have to advertise a fire.

There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.

When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.

If I don't believe the Word of God, why should you believe it? If we don't believe it, why should the world believe us?

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

Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church—with prayer and meditation?

John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.

Surely revival delays because prayer decays.

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

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

The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

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

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.

All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.

Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity

LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!

The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.

Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.

Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!

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

An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing

You know, people say that today. "I am a saved sinner." That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief, or a pure harlot. you can't be a saved sinner. You are either saved or you are a sinner. He came. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins."

When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'