Ravenhill

Here are some Leonard Ravenhill quotes I gleaned from SermonIndex.net.

Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God.

Someone asked me, “Do you pray for the dead?” I said, “No, I preach to them!”

Do you go to church to meet God or to hear a sermon about Him? How many come to church expecting a confrontation with Deity?

Acts shows us the church of Jesus Christ before it became fat and short of breath by prosperity.

I’m sick to death of the so-called Christianity of our day. What’s supernatural about it? When do people come out of the sanctuary awed and can’t speak for an hour because God has been in glory there?

Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.

The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it’s death and eternity. Yet, we’re so unconcerned.

I left you a book of blank checks signed in the blood of Jesus and you didn’t use half of them!”

We’re right on the verge of tremendous judgment unless we have a tremendous, tremendous, earth-quaking revival.

Once inside eternity, we’re going to be very embarrassed at the smallness of our faith.

What are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can’t stick in an hour with God down here? In God’s name, what are you going to do in a million year s in God’s presence? Expect some reports from earth about football or something?

The devil’s aim today is to keep one away from the Bible.

Sin will keep you from this Book or this Book will keep you from sin.

We’re going to get into this Word and eat it. It’ll hurt us at times but it will revive us. It may unclothe us to clothe us, empty us to fill us, cast us down to lift us up and yet this is all we need.

Bible-Christianity: it’s the most costly thing in the world; it’s the most beautiful thing in the world; it’s the most glorious thing in the world.

The only vision many of you have is television.

There’s one thing that life does where ever it goes – it begets life.

If a preacher is not known in hell, he ain’t worth a hill of beans.

The pastor who doesn’t weep for the lost shouldn’t expect people to come and weep for their sins.

I’m convinced that the greatest thing about those Puritan preachers is they lived in eternity six days a week and came down to earth on the seventh!

We put men into pulpits because they have degrees. But you can have 32 of them and still be frozen!

The original missionary went out on a one-way ticket – no return trip!

Not only come to the cross, but get on it!

All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you’ll find your enemies are in your own church.

Paul said, “…having nothing yet possessing all things…” Today, we have all things but possess nothing!

We’re not here to get to know the Word of God but to get to know the God of the Word.

The trouble with our theology is it’s all on the blackboard, our theology is all in text books. It has no life! it has no breath! It has no power! it has no authority!

If you want to expand your soul, then learn to pray.

How do you learn to pray? Well, how do you learn to swim? Do you sit in a chair with your feet up drinking coke learning to swim? No, you get down and you struggle. That’s how you learn to pray. Prayer is our strength; Prayer generates strength; it generates vision; it generates power; and the devil will drive you away from the prayer closet more than anything.

No man is greater than his prayer life.

I stand over a hundred of preachers and I see them shrink and I see them fall on the ground and cry because they have no prayer life. They’re so busy with all the affairs of the church and they’re not ministering to Him!

Let me live with a man a while and share his prayer life and I’ll tell you how tall I think he is, or how majestic he is in God.

You have to be a man to pray and you have to have strength to pray.

I believe the choice in America will come down to this: either we concentrate in prayer or we’ll end up praying in concentration camps. You say it can’t happen. It will!

If you want a new personality, I’ll tell you this: the only way to get it is to have a prayer life.

You can’t pray and be unclean; you can’t pray and hold a grudge; you can’t pray and have bitterness. We blame the devil so much, but many of us sabotage our own prayer lives.

If you tell me this, I’ll tell you how spiritual you are: will you tell me how much you pray. Brother, I’m not interested if you’re booked up ten years; I’m not concerned about how many books you’ve read, how many doctorates you have or how large your church is, tell me how much you pray!

You young men that came tonight, listen! The most important thing in the world while you’re on this side of eternity is that you learn to worship God.

“I’m not going to ask you for a thing; I come to worship you in spirit and in truth.”

If God hasn’t gone out of business, then revival must be possible. The trouble is we don’t want revivals! We just want blessing!

People say, “If we had revival? Wouldn’t be wonderful; we’d all be united.” No, we wouldn’t, we’d be divided!

There is no other way for America to be saved unless we have a Holy Ghost revival that makes men hate sin and loathe sin and turn from sin and repent from sin!

I’m Looking for something so majestic that no man dare to stick is name on it. If he did, he’d drop dead.

Many revivals empty the church before it fills it. God wounds before He heals.

You’ll get revival when you meet God’s conditions for it.

All of God’s great men have been very, very lonely men. The price of being a prophet is loneliness.

All you have to do is decide to walk a little closer to God and you’ll l be criticized more in the church than in the tavern down the street.

If the Son of God needed the anointing, how in the world do you expect you and I will get by without it?

A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

If we have another Pentecost and it was real , we’d all be in jail within a month. We’re such an accommodating Christianity today. Anyone can live around a Christian. They couldn’t in the day of Pentecost when these people were around.

The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it’s waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.

The cross is going to judge everything in your life – your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross examined!

My goal is God Himself – not joy, not peace, not even blessing, but God!

Every step you make in Jesus Christ enrages the devil.

If Bible knowledge could change the world, we would’ve changed it long ago.

There’s going to have to come some heroism in today’s Christianity. It doesn’t necessarily mean burning at the stake, but it could mean that.

I want to be on the devil’s list of most wanted men in America; any other list, forget it!

It’s not the imitation of Christ that you and I need, it’s an impartation of Christ that we need.

The devil’s substitute for joy is entertainment.

God is looking for men who are committed from the soles of their feet to the crown of their heads.

The first thing Jesus did before He could walk or talk is divide people.

Today, people say, “We want peace on earth.” Sure they want peace on earth but they don’t want the Prince of Peace!

Tell me this: do you wish everyone in your city had as much of the Spirit as you do? Would they do anything if they had?

If we’re poor materially, mostly it’s because we have to be. If we’re poor spiritually, it’s because we want to be.

A man came into my office from another nation and he dropped this in my ear, “Christianity began in Palestine and it became a religion; it was transferred to Greece and it became a philosophy; it was transferred to Europe and it became a cult and it was transferred to America and it became big business.

God smote Moses with leprosy. If God smote us from our gossiping and criticism, we’d have to turn this meeting into a healing meeting.

The greatest need tonight in America is prophets!

Christianity is Christ plus nothing!

If you want an expanse in your soul, then learn to pray.

Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? The man who has a degree? The man who is wearing his collar backwards? The man who stands behind an ornate desk with stained glass windows?

It’s a short journey on the way to heaven. The hour is coming for all of us before too long.

The supreme joy in my life is to know the will of God.

The one thing I want the Lord to say to me when I die is, ” You are my beloved son.”

The greatest loss in life is not losing an arm or losing a friend or losing a fortune, it’s losing your relationship with God.

Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount never blessed a material thing! The richer we get in the church, the poorer we get in the spirit.

Where there is no joy, you have to fill it up with entertainment. The more joy you have in God, the less entertainment you need outside of yourself.

It doesn’t say in Scripture that you lose your first love, it says you left it.

If I don’t believe the Word of God, why should you believe it? If we don’t believe it and act it, why should the world believe us?

Often when I’m praying by myself, I thank God for the incorruptible Holy Ghost. Nobody can bribe Him; nobody can buy Him!

You never find anybody asking for money in a true revival.

I don’t believe twenty people in all of America with its 230 million people have ever been in a revival. A revival that stops the traffic; a revival where the lights never go out for months – weeks and weeks and weeks in the sanctuary; a revival where the prayer meeting never ends!

I want to see something that God builds. I want to find some people so hungry for God that every night they want to pray; and find where there’s intercession! We’re not going to move America any other way… We’ve tried every scheme and any every fancy thing and we try and work something up, but what we need some body to come down. Some person! Not a new theology, a person! Just as the Holy Ghost invaded the virgin womb and created Christ there, I need the Holy Ghost to form Christ in me. If I don’t, I’m not a Christian! Christ in you the hope of glory. That’s what it’s all about.