Ravenhill Quotes & Sayings

Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live! — Leonard Ravenhill

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

The 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 Ravenhill

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

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

Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested. — Leonard Ravenhill

The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world.
The question is not whether they know the Word of God ...
The question is ... Do they know the God of the Word? — 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

Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has. — Leonard Ravenhill

The self-righteous never apologize. — Leonard Ravenhill

Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

Praying Christians know nothing of their friends — Leonard Ravenhill

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

The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural. — Leonard Ravenhill

Are you wiser in God (now) than you were last year at this time? Peter says we're to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. — Leonard Ravenhill

The first essential for the coming of the Holy Ghost into a heart today is that the heart should be cleansed from sin, for the Holy Spirit does not fill an unclean heart. What God has cleansed, He then fills. Finally, whom God fills, He uses. A holy life is the authentic sign of being filled with the Spirit. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

Who or what takes priority over God in our lives? — Leonard Ravenhill

The church has paid a terrible price for statistics! — Leonard Ravenhill

Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

Men give advice; God gives guidance. — 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

If Jesus came back today, he wouldn't cleanse the temple, he'd cleanse the pulpit. — Leonard Ravenhill

The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives. — 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

If you kneel before God, you will stand before men. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

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

The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll; and no man can cross another's name off that roll. — Leonard Ravenhill

Some preachers master thier subjects; some subjects master the preacher; once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of, and also mastered by his subject. The apostle Paul, I am sure, was in that category. — Leonard Ravenhill

And I think a long time ago there were big stories. Stories so big you could live your whole life in them. The Powerful Hands of the Gods and Fate. The Journey to Enlightenment. The March of Socialism. But they all died or the world grew up or grew senile or forgot them, so now we're making up our own stories. Little stories. But we've each got one. — Mark 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

The question isn't were you challenged. The question is were you changed? — Leonard Ravenhill

Redemption is a magnificent thing ..the life of God in the soul of man — Leonard Ravenhill

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

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

You never have to advertise a fire. — Leonard Ravenhill

The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens. — 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

They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should be the attitudes of every believer. That's the normal Christian life, not the abnormal Christian life. The normal Christian life is holiness. — Leonard Ravenhill

Christianity is Christ plus nothing! — Leonard Ravenhill

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

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church. — Leonard Ravenhill

This silly world outside thinks it is finished with Jesus Christ but they haven't even started with Him yet. — Leonard Ravenhill

Notice, 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 Ravenhill

Christ cared enough for sinners to die for them. Do we care enough for sinners to live to reach them? — Leonard Ravenhill

The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

There's a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

Quit 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 Ravenhill

God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer! — Leonard Ravenhill

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

Maybe you are the key to revival in your church. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness. — 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

The darker it gets, the brighter your light will shine. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

But you know if God should stamp eternity or even judgment on our eyeballs, or if you'd like on the fleshy table of our hearts I am quite convinced we'd be a very, very different tribe of people, God's people, in the world today. We live too much in time, we're too earth bound. We see as other men see, we think as other men think. We invest our time as the world invests it. We're supposed to be a different breed of people. I believe that the church of Jesus Christ needs a new revelation of the majesty of God. We're all going to stand one day, can you imagine it- at the judgment seat of Christ to give an account for the deeds done in the body. This is what- this is the King of kings, and He's the Judge of judges, and it's the Tribunal of tribunals, and there's no court of appeal after it. The verdict is final. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all. — Leonard Ravenhill

No 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 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

The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is! — 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

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

The Christless cults and deity-dishonoring mushroom religions of this midnight hour tempt the Lord God. Will no one sound the alarm? — Leonard Ravenhill

Surely revival delays because prayer decays. — Leonard Ravenhill

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America. — Leonard Ravenhill

The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers is considered a go-getter, but to urge our young people to rise at 5:30 to pray is considered fanaticism. We must once again wear the harness of discipline. There is no other way. — 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

He who fears God fears no man. — 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

On all this Bilbo looked with misery. He had taken his stand on Ravenhill among the Elves - partly because there was more chance of escape from that point, and partly (with the more Tookish part of his mind) because if he was going to be in a last desperate stand, he preferred on the whole to defend the Elvenking. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross. — Leonard Ravenhill

If we will do God's work in God's way at God's time with God's power, we shall have God's blessing — Leonard Ravenhill

Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation. — 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

Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was? — Leonard Ravenhill

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