Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill

Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) — Erweckungsprediger · Baptistisch · England

Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) war ein britischer Evangelist und Autor der Heiligungsbewegung, der in Großbritannien und den Vereinigten Staaten wirkte. Bekanntheit erlangte er durch sein Buch „Why Revival Tarries“ sowie seinen kompromisslosen Aufruf zu anhaltendem Gebet, radikaler Buße und geistlicher Erweckung. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er als aufrüttelnder Mahner zu ernster Nachfolge, dessen rhetorische Härte und strenge Heiligungstheologie von Kritikern jedoch auch als gesetzlich und gnadenschwach empfunden wurden.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Prayer & Silence, Church & Congregation, Discipleship, Faith & Trust, Grace & Redemption, Witness & Mission, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Growth & Character

Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill

Christ did not come into this world to make bad people good, but to make dead people alive.
Leonard Ravenhill

Prayer is often mightiest when it is quietest.
Leonard Ravenhill

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

I think the greatest miracle that God can do is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that unholy man holy and put him back in an unholy world and keep him holy.
Leonard Ravenhill

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
Leonard Ravenhill

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great detergent.
Leonard Ravenhill

We can increase our churches without increasing the Kingdom of God.
Leonard Ravenhill

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

He who fears God has no one else to fear.
Leonard Ravenhill

Prayer strengthens the weak and weakens the strong.
Leonard Ravenhill

Preacher, keep your knees on the ground and your eyes fixed on the throne.
Leonard Ravenhill

Satan and hell fear nothing more than praying men.
Leonard Ravenhill

To be much for God, we must be much with God.
Leonard Ravenhill

Today’s church wants to be raptured from responsibility
Leonard Ravenhill

The secret of prayer is praying in secret.
Leonard Ravenhill

A man who has had an experience with God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument or another's experience.
Leonard Ravenhill

The Cinderella of the church is prayer.
Leonard Ravenhill

No man is greater than his prayer life.
Leonard Ravenhill

The two requirements for a victorious Christian life are vision and passion; both are born and sustained by prayer.
Leonard Ravenhill

A man who dies at 20 may have lived as though he had completed a century.
Leonard Ravenhill

The holy Book of the living God suffers more now from its expositors than from its opposers.
Leonard Ravenhill

Prayer is to the believer what capital is to the businessman.
Leonard Ravenhill

What truth requires of us is that we never abandon it, even if it costs us the sacrifice of our lives; for we live not for this age nor for the princes of this world, but for the Lord.
Leonard Ravenhill

If God does not enlighten us in the secret place, we are in darkness.
Leonard Ravenhill

Christianity is the only religion in the world in which a person's God lives inside that person.
Leonard Ravenhill

Prayer is the widest-reaching service of Christians.
Leonard Ravenhill

As long as we are content to live without revival, we will.
Leonard Ravenhill

Repentance is not a few tears, an emotion, a regret or a reform; repentance is a change of mind about God, about sin and about hell.
Leonard Ravenhill

A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.
Leonard Ravenhill

Prayer is the most unexplored area of the Christian life.
Leonard Ravenhill

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.
Leonard Ravenhill

If Jesus preached the same message minister’s preach today, He would have never been crucified.
Leonard Ravenhill

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.
Leonard Ravenhill

There are only two kinds of people: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.
Leonard Ravenhill

A Reformation is a move of God in the hearts and minds of people who recognize Him not only as Savior but also as Lord, and who serve Him.
Leonard Ravenhill

For this sin-hungry age we need a prayer-hungry church.
Leonard Ravenhill

Someone asked me, Do you pray for the dead? And I answered them: No, I preach to them.
Leonard Ravenhill

The burning faith of the new believer is quenched with the cold water of a rationalist preacher's unbelief.
Leonard Ravenhill

Life is short, eternity is long.
Leonard Ravenhill

The more people pray, the less worldly they are. The less they pray, the more worldly they become.
Leonard Ravenhill

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