More Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill
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.
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.
If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.
The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!
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.
Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.
Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live! Leonard Ravenhill
The only people who want to change the Gospel are those who are unchanged by it.
