Leonard Ravenhill

You never have to advertise a fire. You don’t have to advertise in the newspaper. Forget it. You let the glory of the Lord fill the temple, people will come a hundred miles.

Easy-going preachers Produce easy-going believers. We have more star preachers than scarred preachers, more expositors than exposers, more who are concerned to 'get it over' than to 'pray it through.'

Surely revival delays because prayer decays.

I am not angered by the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations i…

My main ambition in life is to be on the devil's most wanted list.

The only reason we don't have revival is because we are willing to live without it!

The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized within the lifetime of the opportunity.

The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdra…

Neglect of prayer is an effrontery to God, for by it we are saying that we have confidence in the flesh and can operate the spiritual life on a do-it-yourself basis.

If we today could rediscover the virtue in that Name, the victory in that Name, the violence in that Name, we could set this world alight for God. Most of us have enough grace to scrape through the day, but we have nothi…

Paul was branded by passion. A man must be in the dead center of God's will and walking the tightrope of obedience to call upon the Holy Ghost to bear witness to his witness.

The cost might be prison, for it were better that he should be "the prisoner of the Lord" for a few years than that his fellow men should be the devil's prisoners in hell forever.

Paul's was an exemplary life.

Physical courage will make a man brave one way; and moral courage, which despises men's opinions whosoever they be, will make a man brave another way. Both these types of courage made Paul a Christian Daniel in a Roman "…

What he is to the inscrutable God is what matters.

Christ conquered him two thousand years ago. Satan fools and feints, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget "the exceeding greatness of God's power to usward."

Yet it is strangely true that we can get more "apparent" concern for people across the world than for our perishing neighbors across the street! With all our mass-evangelism, souls are won only in hundreds. Let an atom b…

Repentance is a change of mind about God, about sin, and about hell!

There is a love constraining me To go and seek the lost; I yield, O Lord, my all to Thee To save at any cost!

The birth of a natural child is predated by months of burden and days of travail; so is the birth of a spiritual child.

If we will give God time, He will give us timeless souls.

Inspiration is as mysterious as life, for both are God-given. Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

Brethren, to our knees again.

Only when we are thus "dead to the world and all its toys, its idle pomp and fading joys" can we feel the freedom that Paul knew.

The world is not waiting for a new definition of the Gospel, but for a new demonstration of the power of the Gospel.

The sweet hour of prayer as a mid-week breather in the church has been reduced to a sweet twenty minutes of prayer.

An old Scot used to say to us, ' If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.

Yet again in writing to a friend of John Smith he says, ' I have often seen him come downstairs in the morning after several hours in prayer, his eyes swollen with weeping. He would soon introduce the subject of his anxi…

Prayer is to the believer what capital is to the business man.

The Heathen. What shall I do when the heathens standAnd accuse that I seldom lent a hand To save them from pain and eternal woeAnd stayed in my ease, but made others goWhen the Message I knew, I knew full wellCould save…

Dead to the world and all its toys! Its idle pomp and fading joys! Jesus, my glory be!

Joy requires at least two conditions: submission and service. If yee abide, submission means staying put when it might seem smart to quit. It means having done all to stand when there is only a toehold. It means believin…

The way to enjoy indestructible peace and joy is to determine: 1.) to do whatever God commands, however difficult. 2.) to endure whatever God appoints, however severe. 3.) to obtain whatever God promises, however seeming…

Oh, may no earthbound cloud arise to hide thee from thy servant's eyes.

Time was when people went to church to meet God. Now they go to hear a sermon about Him.

How Do You Take It Easy?

How do you take it easy
When His fire burns within?
How do you take it easy
In a world that's crushed by sin?
How do you take it easy
With a thousand tribes to tell?
How do you take it easy
In a…

I am distressed at the zeal of the heretics; and at the amnesia of the believers.

God's problem in the United States and England is not humanism or communism or spiritualism. God's problem in America and England is dead fundamentalism.

Prayer is the most unexplored area of the Christian life. Prayer is the most powerful weapon of the Christian life. Prayer is the most Hell-feared battle in the Christian life. Prayer is the most secret device of the Chr…

Prayer is the language of the poor in spirit. Since repetition is the law of learning, let me reiterate a phrase I often use in preaching on prayer: The self-satisfied do not want to pray. The self-sufficient do not need…

I have said before that one of these days, someone will read the Bible for the first time, believe it, and act on it with a daring, simple faith. Then we long-time believers will bow in shame crying, ' Lord, help our unb…

Faith is the muscle by which we lift the load. Faith is the currency by which we make purchases in the spiritual Kingdom. Faith is spiritual sight. Men of faith see--they see the unseeable. Men of faith known a dimension…

We need prayer to obtain victory, and then prayer to maintain victory. We need to pray about our praying. We must pray unction upon others as they are praying. We must pray alone. We must pray together. We must pray in t…

The early church prayed. Every revival church has prayed. Every participant in revival prayer has known travail. Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to or modern Christianity, p…

I believe the failure stems back to our poverty in prayer. To offer different brands of politics as a cure-all for this sick age is like handing out aspirins to incurable cancer patients.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing…

The price is high. God does not want partnership with us, but ownership of us.

Madness, you say? Exactly! A sober church never does any good. At this hour we need men drunk with the Holy Ghost.