More Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill
Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.
If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.
If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?
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.
God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.
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?
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.
The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are!
