Top 250 Leonard Ravenhill Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The Bible is either absolute, or it’s obsolete.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

153. “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

154. “While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

155. “The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

157. “What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

159. “Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen – degrees or no degrees.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

160. “I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that’s true of England!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

161. “Until the church is holy there’ll be no rapture – I don’t care what theory of the rapture you have.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

162. “The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

163. “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

164. “And before we can be clean and ready for Him to control, self-seeking, self-glory, self-interest, self-pity, self-righteousness, self-importance, self-promotion, self-satisfaction – and whatsoever else there be of self – must die.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

165. “We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

166. “When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

167. “The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it’s death and eternity. Yet, we’re so unconcerned.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

168. “The Cinderella of the church of 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.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

169. “John the Baptist’s training was in God’s University of Silence. God takes all His great men there.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

170. “Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

171. “The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

172. “The ugly fact is that altar fires are either out or burning very low. The prayer meeting is dead or dying. By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh. What church ever asks its candidating ministers what time they spend in prayer? Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

173. “Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

174. “It has been well said that there are only three classes of people in the world today: those who are afraid, those who do not know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

175. “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.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

176. “Jesus said, ‘‘Go ye!’’ but He also said, ‘‘Tarry until!’’ Let any man shut himself up for a week with only bread and water, with no books except the Bible, with no visitor except the Holy Ghost, and I guarantee, my preacher brethren, that that man will either break up or break through and out. After that, like Paul, he will be known in hell!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

177. “Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

178. “Today God is bypassing men – not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents our stumbling blocks!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

179. “Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

180. “The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

181. “If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there’s something wrong!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

182. “The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

183. “The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

184. “Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

185. “The longer I live, the more I find I don’t know.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

186. “This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

187. “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.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

188. “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!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

189. “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.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

192. “You won’t become a saint by studying your Bible; you’ll become a saint by living it.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

193. “Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

194. “There’s a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

195. “The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

196. “Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

197. “You can’t develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

198. “At God’s counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

199. “God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts. – F. LINCICOME.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

200. “Sodom, which had no Bible, no preachers, no tracts, no prayer meetings, no churches, perished. How then will America and England be spared from the wrath of the Almighty, think you? We have millions of Bibles, scores of thousands of churches, endless preachers – and yet what sin!”

— Leonard Ravenhill