Leonard Ravenhill citations

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne.”

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

“My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF… my GOD.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?”

“When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it legalism.”

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

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