Quotes from Leonard Ravenhill

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.

Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity

At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!

Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.

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.

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

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.

The only power that God yields to is that of prayer.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

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

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man's God comes and lives inside of Him!

Are you wiser in God (now) than you were last year at this time? Peter says we're to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.

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

If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.

My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list.

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?

If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life.

This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!