More Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill
My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.
The only people who want to change the Gospel are those who are unchanged by it.
The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.
The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!
In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.
Someone asked me, 'Do you pray for the dead?' I said, 'No, I preach to them! I think every pew in every church is death row. Think about that! They're dead! They sing about God; they talk about God, but they're dead! They have no living relationship (with God).
If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and so preached, I got baptized and...' Are you saved? What are you saved from, hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from cheating? Are you saved from lying? Are you saved from bad manners? Are you saved from rebellion against your parents? Come on, what are you saved from?
Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.
