Top 250 Leonard Ravenhill Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

52. “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.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

53. “Men give advice; God gives guidance.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

54. “You can have all of your doctrines right – yet still not have the presence of God.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

55. “Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

56. “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

57. “This life is a dressing room for eternity – THAT’S ALL IT IS!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

58. “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?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

59. “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

60. “How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don’t even have the strength to turn off your TV?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

61. “I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

62. “Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

63. “Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

65. “Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

67. “Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

68. “Church unity comes from corporate humility.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

69. “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

70. “The sinner’s prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

71. “The darker it gets, the brighter your light will shine.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

72. “When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness – or you can light a candle.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

73. “The most shattering thought I’ve ever had is my personal accountability to God one day.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

74. “Many of us are hunting mice – while lions devour the land.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

75. “Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It’s a lonely life, but it’s a glorious life.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

76. “Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man’s God comes and lives inside of Him!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

77. “The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

78. “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

79. “Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

80. “Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

82. “Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting. It’s being tried, found difficult and rejected!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

83. “Christianity is Christ plus nothing!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

84. “We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

86. “Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

88. “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

89. “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

90. “I think one of the serious breakdowns in modern evangelism is this: it has offered too much for too little. What we do mostly is offer forgiveness. We need cleansing! There is no true conversion until a man takes up his cross.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

91. “You can’t live wrong and pray right.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

92. “Gethsemane is where He died; the cross is only the evidence.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

94. “You never have to advertise a fire.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

95. “How can you have a dead service with a living Christ?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

96. “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

97. “When you’re born in fire, smoke will never do.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

98. “Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

99. “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

100. “Christians don’t tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven’t given Him one ounce?”

— Leonard Ravenhill