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More Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill
In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.
The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.
The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
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.
I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.
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?
If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.
If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!
