Leonard Ravenhill Quotes & Sayings

How do you learn to pray? Well how do you learn to swim? Do you sit in a chair with your feet up drinking coke learning to swim? You get down and you struggle. That's how you learn to pray. — Leonard Ravenhill

An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing — Leonard Ravenhill

Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says. — Leonard Ravenhill

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. — Leonard Ravenhill

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 — Leonard Ravenhill

You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

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. — Leonard Ravenhill

The evangelists today are very often prepared to be anything to anybody as long as they can get somebody to the altar for something. They glibly call out: 'Who wants help? Who wants more power? Who wants a closer walk with God?' Such a sinning, repenting 'easy believeism' dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die on. Let those who will not pay this price leave it alone! — Leonard Ravenhill

I believe the place of prayer is not only a place where I lose my burdens, but also a place where I get a burden. He shares my burden and I share His burden ... To know that burden, we must hear the voice of the Spirit. To hear that voice, we must be still and know that He is God. — Leonard Ravenhill

I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God — Leonard Ravenhill

Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself. — Leonard Ravenhill

The self-righteous never apologize. — Leonard Ravenhill

Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God. — Leonard Ravenhill

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are. — Leonard Ravenhill

The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low. — Leonard Ravenhill

If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower. — Leonard Ravenhill

The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined! — Leonard Ravenhill

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. — Leonard Ravenhill

The 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 Ravenhill

There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin. — Leonard Ravenhill

At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail! — Leonard Ravenhill

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting. — Leonard Ravenhill

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer. — Leonard Ravenhill

Today God is bypassing men - not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents our stumbling blocks! — Leonard Ravenhill

I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God. I read about Charles G. Finney winning his thousands and his hundreds of thousands of souls to Christ. Then I picked up a book and read the messages of Charles G. Finney and the message of Jonathan Edwards on 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,' and I said, 'No wonder men trembled; no wonder they fell in the altars and cried out in repentance and sobbed their way to the throne of grace!' — Leonard Ravenhill

Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity. — Leonard Ravenhill

Great 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 Ravenhill

When are people finally going to get serious about being serious? — Leonard Ravenhill

We are not eternity conscious enough. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying. — Leonard Ravenhill

Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal — Leonard Ravenhill

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? — Leonard Ravenhill

There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life. — Leonard Ravenhill

The 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 Ravenhill

If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men? — Leonard Ravenhill

The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use. — Leonard Ravenhill

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it. — Leonard Ravenhill

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. — Leonard Ravenhill

A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons — Leonard Ravenhill

A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

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. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees. — Leonard Ravenhill

Someone asked me, 'Do you pray for the dead?' I said, 'No, I preach to them! I think every pew in every church is death row. Think about that! They're dead! They sing about God; they talk about God, but they're dead! They have no living relationship (with God). — Leonard Ravenhill

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

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. — Leonard Ravenhill

God asks the best we have Because He gave the Best He had. — Leonard Ravenhill

The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it. — Leonard Ravenhill

What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them; they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell. — Leonard Ravenhill

If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew. — Leonard Ravenhill

To copy copies is not normally safe, but it is safe to copy Paul, for he was fully surrendered, wholly sanctified, completely satisfied, — Leonard Ravenhill

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

I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and
2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down
and cry? — Leonard Ravenhill

Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken. — Leonard Ravenhill

If there are a million roads into hell, there's not one road out. — Leonard Ravenhill

Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated. — Leonard Ravenhill

Almost every Bible conference majors on today's Church being like the Ephesian Church. We are told that, despite our sin and carnality, we are seated with Him. Alas, what a lie! We are Ephesians all right; but, as the Ephesian Church in the Revelation, we have 'left our first love!' We appease sin - but do not oppose it. To such a cold, carnal, critical, care-cowed Church, this lax, loose, lustful, licentious age will never capitulate. Let us stop looking for scapegoats. The fault in declining morality is not radio or television. The whole blame for the present international degeneration and corruption lies at the door of the Church! — Leonard Ravenhill

Would 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 Ravenhill

I want to so live that God doesn't have to have to give me one minute's — Leonard Ravenhill

If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not! — Leonard Ravenhill

Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord. — Leonard Ravenhill

Notice to step out of time into eternity. — Leonard Ravenhill

My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list. — Leonard Ravenhill

No faith is required to do the possible; actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of. — Leonard Ravenhill

God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts. - F. LINCICOME — Leonard Ravenhill

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

Holiness is not a luxury, it's a necessity. If you're not holy, you'll never make it to Heaven [Heb. 12:14]. — Leonard Ravenhill

How can you have a dead service with a living Christ? — Leonard Ravenhill

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

Gethsemane is where He died; the cross is only the evidence. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

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. — Leonard Ravenhill

Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have. — Leonard Ravenhill

Church unity comes from corporate humility. — Leonard Ravenhill

If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease? — Leonard Ravenhill

Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors. — Leonard Ravenhill

The 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 Ravenhill

Faith is taking God at His Word. — Leonard Ravenhill

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. — Leonard Ravenhill

Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land. — Leonard Ravenhill

I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

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

Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions — Leonard Ravenhill

Satan 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 Ravenhill

Men give advice; God gives guidance. — Leonard Ravenhill

What are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can't stick in an hour with God down here? — Leonard Ravenhill

The only people who want to change the Gospel are those who are unchanged by it. — Leonard Ravenhill

Christianity is Christ plus nothing! — Leonard Ravenhill

Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God. — Leonard Ravenhill

Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him. - J — Leonard Ravenhill

One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church. — Leonard Ravenhill