More Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill
The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
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?
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.
Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.
God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.
Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice! It's not a glamous gospel ,but a bloody gospel, a gory gospel, and a sacrificial gospel! 5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more, prayed more, given more!!!
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!
My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.
If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?
Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live! Leonard Ravenhill
