Leonard Ravenhill

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…

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.

altered Asia, jaundiced the Jews, riled the Romans, taught the teachers, and pitied prison jailors. This man Paul, and another preacher called Silas, dynamited the prison walls' with prayer' and cost the taxpayers a load…

The Gospel is a fact; therefore tell it simply. The Gospel is a joyful fact; therefore tell it cheerfully. The Gospel is an entrusted fact; therefore tell it faithfully. The Gospel is a fact of infinite moment; therefore…

there are only three classes of people in the world today: those who are afraid, those who do not know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles. Sodom, which had no Bible, no preachers, no tracts, no prayer m…

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 ato…

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

To make my weak heart strong and brave, Send the fire. To live a dying world to save, send the fire. Oh, see me on Thy altar lay My life, my all, this very day; To crown the offering now, I pray: Send the fire! ' F. de L…

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.

Is life' s span so dear and are home comforts so engrossing as to be purchased with my unfaithfulness and dry-eyed prayerlessness? At the final bar of God, shall the perishing millions accuse me of materialism coated wit…

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 HeathenWhat 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 th…

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

Soldiers of Christ AriseSoldiers of Christ ariseAnd put your armor onStrong in the strength that God suppliesThrough his eternal SonStrong in the Lord of hostsAnd in His mighty powerWho, in the strength of Jesus trustsIs…

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…

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 believing God when it appears far wiser to believe everybody else. It…

Joy comes through service. Most Christians are activists--they get caught up in some kind of church work. But not all of it is good. Not all of it is essential. Even missionaries find themselves tangled in lesser things…

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, Wonder of WondersOh, wonder of wondersMy God, can it beThat Jesus has diedFor one rebel like meHe lifted my bondageAnd soul' s miseryThe Lord, King of gloryWas wounded for meThey led Him to trialThey spit in His face…

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

I' m Resting in the LordI must be carried to the skiesOn flowery beds of easeLet others fight to win the prizeAnd passel on their knees I cannot fight, but I must reinIn heaven' s blessed abodeI' m glad that some enjoy t…

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 wor…

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 t…

The Revival SongLord, we are hungry for blessingThis is in tune with thy wordNow is our need we' re confessingGive us new hearts, cleansed and stirredGreat is the need of our nationsGreat is the need of this hourLord, we…