Top 250 Leonard Ravenhill Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “No man is greater than his prayer life.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

2. “Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

3. “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

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4. “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.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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5. “The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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6. “Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

10. “The only reason we don’t have revival is because we are willing to live without it!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

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12. “Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

13. “Faith is taking God at His Word.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

14. “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.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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15. “If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

16. “I’d rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

17. “There are two kinds of people in the world – only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

18. “If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

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20. “Any method of evangelism will work – if God is in it.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

22. “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

23. “Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

24. “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

25. “God doesn’t answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

26. “If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

27. “There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

28. “If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

29. “Five minutes after you die you’ll know how you should have lived.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

30. “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

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31. “My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil’s most wanted list.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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32. “Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

33. “Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

34. “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

35. “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

36. “He who fears God fears no man.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

38. “I want to see the glory of God invade this generation.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

39. “LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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40. “The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

41. “An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

42. “We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

43. “The self-righteous never apologize.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

46. “The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it’s waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

47. “Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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48. “The secret of praying is praying in secret.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

50. “If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?”

— Leonard Ravenhill