When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.
Leonard RavenhillWould we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!
Leonard RavenhillNobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life.
Leonard RavenhillWe need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.
Leonard RavenhillThe Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Power helpeth our infirmity in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Life ends our deadness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Wisdom delivers us from ignorance in this holy art ofprayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Fire delivers us from coldness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Might comes to our aid in our weakness as we pray.
Leonard RavenhillWhat good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?
Leonard RavenhillNo church group that knows spiritual warfare has wiener roasts or even passion plays. There is a real warfare. I have said before that we are an arrogant, self-styled bunch of believers. We "believe" to the point of inconvenience - and then quit.
Leonard RavenhillCould a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?
Leonard RavenhillA popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.
Leonard RavenhillWhere,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
Leonard RavenhillOne of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say `I cast out devils, and Jesus will say `I never knew you.
Leonard RavenhillThe law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.
Leonard RavenhillThe more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.
Leonard RavenhillWe'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.
Leonard RavenhillWhy 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?
Leonard RavenhillBy our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.
Leonard RavenhillRevival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.
Leonard RavenhillAmerica is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.
Leonard RavenhillYou know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.
Leonard RavenhillOne thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.
Leonard RavenhillUntil the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.
Leonard RavenhillThe world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
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