Leonard Ravenhill
1907-1994
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.
If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?
I’d rather have ten people that are hungry for God than ten thousand people who keep playing church.
The world has lost its power to blush over its sin. The church has lost its power to weep over it.
A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.
We live too much in time, we’re too earth bound. We see as other men see, we think as other men think. We invest our time as the world invests it. We're supposed to be a different breed of people. I believe that the church of Jesus Christ needs a new revelation of the majesty of God.
Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.
Where, oh, where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
Were we half as hot as we think we are, and a tenth as powerful as we say we are, our Christians would be baptized in blood, as well as in water and in fire.
Prayer does not condition God; prayer conditions us. Prayer does not win God to our view; it reveals God’s view to us.
Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal
If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?
I’d rather have ten people that are hungry for God than ten thousand people who keep playing church.
The world has lost its power to blush over its sin. The church has lost its power to weep over it.
A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.
We live too much in time, we’re too earth bound. We see as other men see, we think as other men think. We invest our time as the world invests it. We're supposed to be a different breed of people. I believe that the church of Jesus Christ needs a new revelation of the majesty of God.
Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.
Where, oh, where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
Were we half as hot as we think we are, and a tenth as powerful as we say we are, our Christians would be baptized in blood, as well as in water and in fire.
Prayer does not condition God; prayer conditions us. Prayer does not win God to our view; it reveals God’s view to us.
Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal