Leonard Ravenhill (1907 – 1994) was a famous English evangelist who spent his life focusing on the subjects of prayer and revival. He is best known for his fiery preaching style and challenging the western church to live like the church found in the Book of Acts. Below are quotes by Ravenhill that I pray will challenge you to live a more holy life.1
“Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.”
“The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.”
“Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.”
“Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!”
“In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.”
“Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.”
“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.”
“A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.”
“Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!”
“The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.”
“Five minutes after you die you’ll know how you should have lived.”
“There’s only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that’s a holy life.”
“The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.”
“There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.”
“My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil’s most wanted list.”
“Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.”
“The only people who want to change the Gospel are those who are unchanged by it.”
“LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!”
“Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.”
“God asks the best we have Because He gave the Best He had.”
“It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross.”
“If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?”
“There’s one thing we need above everything else; it’s something we don’t talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.”
“The secret of praying is praying in secret.”
1 TOP 25 QUOTES BY LEONARD RAVENHILL (of 269) | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)