Quotes from Leonard Ravenhill

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.

Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

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.

Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?

When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'

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

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.

Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!

Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.

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

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.

No man is greater than his prayer life.

Surely revival delays because prayer decays.

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

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

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

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