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More Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill
If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?
The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.
There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.
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.
Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?
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.
The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
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.
