Leonard Ravenhill Quotes

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

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Personality, Church

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• If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Holiness, Want, Ifs

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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.

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  Fashion, Prayer, Passion

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• If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Jesus, Religion

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• The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

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  Men, Secret, Praying

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.26, Bethany House

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• Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Moving, Exercise

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• 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.

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  Loneliness, Men, Eagles

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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!!!

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  Sacrifice, Wish, Eternity

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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, Men, World

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

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  Dying, Christ, Things Worth Dying For

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• In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

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  Heart, Religion, Church

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

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  God, Religious, Joy

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

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  Differences, Knowing, World

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.71, Bethany House

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

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  Christian, Tvs, Compromise

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  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

  Thinking, People, Three

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.35, Bethany House

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• 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.

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  Running, Fire, Christian Inspirational

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• A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Revival

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• Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Prayer, Preparation

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• 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

  Christian, Men, Miracle

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• 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

  Jesus, Father, Angel

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• If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Today, Temples

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Men, Religion

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• Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

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  God, Wise, Wisdom

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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

  Prayer, Men, Fasting

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