Quotes from Leonard Ravenhill

Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

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.

A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.

A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

Redemption is a magnificent thing ..the life of God in the soul of man

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.

Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.

Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say 'I cast out devils, and Jesus will say 'I never knew you.

A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.

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

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.

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

The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

You can't live wrong and pray right.

If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?

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

Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne.

My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.