Quotes from Leonard Ravenhill

There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.

There's a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

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.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

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

There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.

Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.

Notice to step out of time into eternity.

Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.

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

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

We must live a holy life if we want to pray.

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.

Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!

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.

The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.

Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.

The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.

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?

Isn't it amazing that God gives breath to a man who is going to blaspheme Him all day!

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