Top 250 Leonard Ravenhill Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

102. “We are not eternity conscious enough.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

103. “Jehovah Witnesses don’t believe in hell and neither do most Christians.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

104. “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

105. “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

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

107. “Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

108. “Surely revival delays because prayer decays.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

109. “The question isn’t were you challenged. The question is were you changed?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

110. “There’s only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that’s a holy life.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

111. “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

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

113. “If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

115. “If there are a million roads into hell, there’s not one road out.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

116. “If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

117. “Revival is the Spirit’s passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

121. “We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

123. “Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

124. “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

125. “The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

126. “Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

128. “The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

129. “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.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

130. “The only people who want to change the Gospel are those who are unchanged by it.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

131. “Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

133. “Only they who fulfill God’s commands have a claim on the Lord.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

134. “Isn’t it amazing that God gives breath to a man who is going to blaspheme Him all day!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

135. “You must be much WITH God before you can be much FOR God.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

136. “Today’s church wants to be raptured from responsibility.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

137. “It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

138. “At this grim hour, the world sleeps in the darkness, and the Church sleeps in the light;.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

140. “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

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

142. “The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

143. “Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

144. “When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it ‘legalism.’”

— Leonard Ravenhill

145. “The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

146. “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!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

147. “The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

148. “No man – I don’t care how colossal his intellect – No man is greater than his prayer life.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

149. “A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

150. “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.”

— Leonard Ravenhill