More Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill
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.
If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?
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.
The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
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).
The only people who want to change the Gospel are those who are unchanged by it.
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.
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.
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!
