Quotes from Leonard Ravenhill

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.

LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!

Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?

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 Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

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.

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed).

Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.

The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.

One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.

If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!

there is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.

Sodom, which had no Bible, no preachers, no tracts, no prayer meetings, no churches, perished. How then will America and England be spared from the wrath of the Almighty, think you? We have millions of Bibles, scores of thousands of churches, endless preachers—and yet what sin!

if we will do God's work in God's way at God's time with God's power, we shall have God's blessing

A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.

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?

Who or what takes priority over God in our lives?

The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.

The Christless cults and deity-dishonoring mushroom religions of this midnight hour tempt the Lord God. Will no one sound the alarm?