More Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.
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.
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.
Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?
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.
LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!
The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
