Leonard Ravenhill
Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?Collection: Dying
Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Fashion
Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.Collection: Prayer
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.Collection: Christian
How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?Collection: Christian
There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.Collection: Differences
Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!Collection: Jesus
Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice! It's not a glamous gospel ,but a bloody gospel, a gory gospel, and a sacrificial gospel! 5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more, prayed more, given more!!!Collection: Sacrifice
If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.Collection: Christian
In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.Collection: Heart
God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.Collection: Christian
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.Collection: God
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.Collection: Loneliness
If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.Collection: Holiness
The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.Collection: Christian
A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.Collection: Prayer
The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.Collection: Waiting
Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.Collection: Should Have
Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!Collection: Christian
The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.Collection: Men
There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.Collection: Ghost
LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!Collection: Strong
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.Collection: 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.)Collection: Book
Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.Collection: Pride
If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.Collection: Prayer
The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?Collection: Years
No man is greater than his prayer life.Collection: Prayer
Get rid of this bunkum about the 'carnal Christian'. Forget it! If you're carnal, you're not saved.Collection: Christian
A Christian who isn't praying, is only playing!Collection: Christian
A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.Collection: Shepherds
Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.Collection: Risk
Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternityCollection: Prayer
A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Prayer
What are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can't stick in an hour with God down here?Collection: Sticks
Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.Collection: Evangelism
A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermonsCollection: Dry
You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.Collection: Book
The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.Collection: World
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!Collection: Taken
A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.Collection: Men
When you're born in fire, smoke will never do.Collection: Fire
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.Collection: God
The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’Collection: Jesus
Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.Collection: Night
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!Collection: Blood
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.Collection: Jesus