“Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?”1
“The question isn’t were you challenged. The question is were you changed?”
“A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.”
“You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there’s a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.”
“A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.”
“Today Christians spend more money on dog food than missions.”
“Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, ‘Leonard, you took Me too seriously?’”
“Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.”
“If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there’s something wrong!”
“Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice! It’s not a glamorous gospel, but a bloody gospel, a gory gospel, and a sacrificial gospel! 5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more, prayed more, given more!!!”
“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.”
“Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man’s God comes and lives inside of Him!”
“Tell me what time you spend alone with God…and I’ll tell you how spiritual you are.”
“I believe the place of prayer is not only a place where I lose my burdens, but also a place where I get a burden. He shares my burden and I share His burden. … To know that burden, we must hear the voice of the Spirit. To hear that voice, we must be still and know that He is God.”
“The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.”
“If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.”
“You can’t live wrong and pray right.”
“Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the ‘exceeding greatness of God’s power to us.’”
“The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.”
“Today God is bypassing men—not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents our stumbling blocks!”
“Prayer makes the soul tender.”
“God doesn’t answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!”
“A Christian who isn’t praying, is only playing!”
“Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.”
“A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons.”
“If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.”
“The darker it gets, the brighter your light will shine.”
“America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.”
“A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.”
“John the Baptist’s training was in God’s University of Silence. God takes all His great men there.”
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
53 Leonard Ravenhill Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info
TOP 25 QUOTES BY LEONARD RAVENHILL (of 269) | A-Z Quotes