Top 250 Leonard Ravenhill Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

202. “The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

203. “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.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

204. “The only power that God yields to is that of prayer.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

205. “Notice to step out of time into eternity.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

206. “The evangelists today are very often prepared to be anything to anybody as long as they can get somebody to the altar for something. They glibly call out: ‘‘Who wants help? Who wants more power? Who wants a closer walk with God?’’ Such a sinning, repenting ‘‘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

207. “Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him. – J.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

208. “Praying Christians know nothing of their friends.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

209. “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.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

210. “We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

211. “Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that’s good preaching.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

212. “We don’t preach salvation. We preach forgiveness.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

213. “We have not yet resisted unto blood in prayer; nay, we ‘‘do not even get a sweat on our souls,’’ as Luther put it. We pray with a ‘‘take-it-or-leave-it’’ attitude; we pray chance prayers; we offer that which costs us nothing! We have not even ‘‘strong desire.’’ We rather are fitful, moody, and spasmodic. The only power that God yields to is that of prayer. We will write about prayer-power, but not fight while in prayer.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

214. “The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

215. “A Christian who isn’t praying, is only playing!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

216. “Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don’t fit our testimonies.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

217. “Never have so many left so much to so few.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

218. “Why in God’s name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn’t get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

219. “A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

220. “The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

221. “Unctionized by the Spirit’s might, John cried, ‘‘Repent!’’ And they did! Repentance is not a few hot tears at the penitent form. It is not emotion or remorse or reformation. Repentance is a change of mind about God, about sin, and about hell!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

222. “I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don’t believe there’s any middle ground.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

223. “I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

224. “No faith is required to do the possible; actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

225. “Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

226. “When are people finally going to get serious about being serious?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

227. “A saint is good when nobody is looking.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

228. “We are not Protestants any more – just ‘‘non-Catholics’’! Of what and of whom do we protest? Were we half as hot as we think we are, and a tenth as powerful as we say we are, our Christians would be baptized in blood, as well as in water and in fire.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

229. “If Christ waited to be anointed before He went to preach, no young man ought to preach until he, too, has been anointed by the Holy Ghost. – F. B. MEYER.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

230. “When the hammer of logic and the fire of human zeal fail to open the stony heart, unction will succeed.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

231. “Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

232. “Every step you make in Jesus Christ enrages the devil.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

233. “One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour – the church, the true Church.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

234. “If I don’t believe the Word of God, why should you believe it? If we don’t believe it, why should the world believe us?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

235. “Preacher brethren, this is the time to blush that we have no shame, the time to weep for our lack of tears, the time to bend low that we have lost the humble touch of servants, the time to groan that we have no burden, the time to be angry with ourselves that we have no anger over the devil’s monopoly in this ‘‘end time’’ hour, the time to chastise ourselves that the world can so easily get along with us and not attempt to chastise us.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

236. “Prayer makes the soul tender.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

237. “I want to so live that God doesn’t have to have to give me one minute’s.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

238. “Some preachers master thier subjects; some subjects master the preacher; once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of, and also mastered by his subject. The apostle Paul, I am sure, was in that category.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

239. “Oh! my ministering brethren! Much of our praying is but giving God advice! Our praying is discolored with ambition, either for ourselves or for our denomination. Perish the thought! Our goal must be God alone. It is His honor that is sullied, His blessed Son who is ignored, His laws broken, His name profaned, His Book forgotten, His house made a circus of social efforts.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

240. “True preaching is the sweating of blood. – DR. JOSEPH PARKER.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

241. “There’s one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

242. “An experience of God that cost nothing, does nothing, and is worth nothing.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

243. “Prayer does not condition God; prayer conditions us. Prayer does not win God to our view; it reveals God’s view to us.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

244. “There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience. – CHARLES G. FINNEY.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

245. “Some Christians cannot say when they were saved. But I never knew a man yet who was baptized with the Holy Ghost and Fire and was unable to say when it happened.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

246. “For this sin-hungry age we need a prayer-hungry Church.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

247. “The Spirit-filled believer will hate iniquity, injustice, and impurity; and he will militate against all of them. Because Paul hated the world, the world hated Paul. We, too, need this disposition of opposition.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

248. “He who would teach the people to pray must first himself be given to prayer.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

249. “Such a sinning, repenting ‘‘easy believeism’’ dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

250. “There is something very questionable and unbiblical about those who claim a baptism of the Spirit and yet know nothing of extended periods in prayer.”

— Leonard Ravenhill