Leonard Ravenhill quotes:

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

The 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.

The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology. She wears the homespuns of sincerity and humility and so is not afraid to kneel!

Could 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?

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.

To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along with tears. Can one be moved with compassion and not know tears? Jeremiah was a sobbing saint. Jesus wept! So did Paul. So did John. Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern Christianity, praying is foreign.

We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

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.

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.

There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.

Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.

No man is greater than his prayer life.

Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God.

The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

God 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.

Gethsemane is where He died; the cross is only the evidence.

We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.

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

He who fears God fears no man.

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.

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).

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

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

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

Men give advice; God gives guidance.

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

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

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.

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.

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

Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?

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

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

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.

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

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.

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

Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions

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.

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

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 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.

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!

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

It 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.

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

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

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.

Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.

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

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

The self-righteous never apologize.

A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.

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

A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.

The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

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

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

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.

No 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.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

But have we Holy Ghost power-power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?

If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong!

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

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

A Christian who isn't praying, is only playing!

A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.

A saint is good when nobody is looking.

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

A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons

An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing

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

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

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.

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.

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

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.

By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.

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

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

Christianity is Christ plus nothing!

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

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

Church unity comes from corporate humility.

Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of the Lord in their midst? When they had a normal church life, which meant nights of prayers, followed by signs and wonders, and diverse miracles, and genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost? When they were not clock watchers, and their meetings lasted for hours, saturated with holy power? Have we no tears for these memories, or shame that our children know nothing of such power?

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy

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

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you needwhen you can say, 'Thou, O Christ, art all I want.' But listen, be careful: it may strip you of everything else you have; you may lose some of your best friends who think you're fanatical; they don't mind you being kind or good, but you become holy and zealous

Every step you make in Jesus Christ enrages the devil.

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.

Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.

Faith is taking God at His Word.

Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested.

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

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

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

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

God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!

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

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.

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

How can you have a dead service with a living Christ?

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.

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

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.

I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!

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

I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity.