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Leonard Ravenhill was an English Christian evangelist and author who focused on the subjects of prayer and revival. He is best known for challenging western evangelicalism to compare itself to the early Christian Church as chronicled in the Book of Acts. He was a proponent of the moral government or Governmental theory of atonement. His most notable book is Why Revival Tarries which has sold over a million copies worldwide. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. June 1907 – 27. November 1994
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Famous Leonard Ravenhill Quotes

“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.”

Leonard Ravenhill

Source: Why Revival Tarries

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

Leonard Ravenhill

Source: Revival God's Way

“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.”

Leonard Ravenhill

“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

“You can't live wrong and pray right.”

Leonard Ravenhill

Leonard Ravenhill Quotes about God

“A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.”

Leonard Ravenhill

Source: Meat For Men (n. d.)

“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.”

Leonard Ravenhill

Source: Why Revival Tarries

“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.”

Leonard Ravenhill

Source: Why Revival Tarries

“A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.”

Leonard Ravenhill

“If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?”

Leonard Ravenhill

Source: Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

Leonard Ravenhill Quotes

“The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.”

Leonard Ravenhill

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

Leonard Ravenhill

Source: Final message to the church (n. d.)

“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.”

Leonard Ravenhill

Source: Sodom Had No Bible (1971)

“The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world and make him holy, then put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.”

Leonard Ravenhill

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

Leonard Ravenhill

“The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.”

Leonard Ravenhill

Final message to the church (n. d.)

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