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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.
Leonard Ravenhill
2.
Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.
Leonard Ravenhill
3.
If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.
Leonard Ravenhill
If you want to be celebrated, spread contentment. If you want to be disliked, promote righteousness.
4.
A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.
Leonard Ravenhill
A man who is close with the Divine will never be daunted by mortals.
5.
The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.
Leonard Ravenhill
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Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice! It's not a glamous 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!!!
Leonard Ravenhill
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If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.
Leonard Ravenhill
If Jesus had proclaimed the same doctrine that pastors promulgate presently, He would never have been executed.
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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.
Leonard Ravenhill
'There are two distinct groups of people in the world—only two. Not categorized by race, wealth, or status, but those either enslaved to wickedness or freed from it.'
9.
I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.
Leonard Ravenhill
I'd rather have ten people who yearn for the divine than 10,000 people who merely act out a ritual.
10.
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.
Leonard Ravenhill
Entreaty is not an attempt to influence God to conduct matters according to our desires, but a practice through which we are enabled by his Spirit to adjust ourselves to his will.
11.
You know, people say that today. "I am a saved sinner." That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief, or a pure harlot. you can't be a saved sinner. You are either saved or you are a sinner. He came. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins."
Leonard Ravenhill
12.
I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and
2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down
and cry?
Leonard Ravenhill
13.
The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
Leonard Ravenhill
The less influence a church has, the more amusement it has.
14.
How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?
Leonard Ravenhill
'How can you expel the influences of evil if you lack the determination to switch off your television?'
15.
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.
Leonard Ravenhill
Discreet men traversed the celestial sphere, audacious men explored the depths of the sea, yet prudent men abide by God.
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Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
Leonard Ravenhill
"Jesus did not come into the world to improve ill-natured individuals. He came into the world to give life to those who were lifeless!"
17.
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.
Leonard Ravenhill
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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.
Leonard Ravenhill
Cease dallying, commence supplicating. Discontinue revelry, begin abstinence. Converse less with mortals, converse more with the Almighty. Heed fewer human utterances, hearken to the dictums of Heaven. Forgo journeying, initiate earnest labor.
19.
The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
Leonard Ravenhill
The congregation that is directed by human effort instead of divine will is destined for destruction. A ministry that has academic qualifications but not spiritual fervor produces no miracles.
20.
There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.
Leonard Ravenhill
The only way to demonstrate the presence of the Holy Spirit in your life is through a pious existence.
21.
The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
Leonard Ravenhill
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Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.
Leonard Ravenhill
23.
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
Leonard Ravenhill
24.
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.
Leonard Ravenhill
25.
All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.
Leonard Ravenhill
26.
The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.
Leonard Ravenhill
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Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!
Leonard Ravenhill
28.
Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.
Leonard Ravenhill
29.
The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!
Leonard Ravenhill
30.
Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.
Leonard Ravenhill
31.
Someone asked me, 'Do you pray for the dead?' I said, 'No, I preach to them! I think every pew in every church is death row. Think about that! They're dead! They sing about God; they talk about God, but they're dead! They have no living relationship (with God).
Leonard Ravenhill
32.
The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.
Leonard Ravenhill
33.
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.
Leonard Ravenhill
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If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and so preached, I got baptized and...' Are you saved? What are you saved from, hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from cheating? Are you saved from lying? Are you saved from bad manners? Are you saved from rebellion against your parents? Come on, what are you saved from?
Leonard Ravenhill
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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'?
Leonard Ravenhill
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Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention.
Leonard Ravenhill
37.
The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
Leonard Ravenhill
38.
In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.
Leonard Ravenhill
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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.
Leonard Ravenhill
40.
Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?
Leonard Ravenhill
41.
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?
Leonard Ravenhill
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The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!
Leonard Ravenhill
43.
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.
Leonard Ravenhill
44.
Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.
Leonard Ravenhill
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If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.
Leonard Ravenhill
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The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.
Leonard Ravenhill
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When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
Leonard Ravenhill
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LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!
Leonard Ravenhill
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My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list.
Leonard Ravenhill
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Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?
Leonard Ravenhill