Top 100 Leonard Ravenhill Quotes
#1. If there are a million roads into hell, there's not one road out.
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#2. The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll; and no man can cross another's name off that roll.
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#3. In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.
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#4. All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.
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#5. I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!
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#6. Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.
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#7. We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.
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#9. The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.
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#11. If we will do God's work in God's way at God's time with God's power, we shall have God's blessing
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#12. A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.
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#13. The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?
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#15. The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'
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#16. Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.
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#17. Get rid of this bunkum about the 'carnal Christian'. Forget it! If you're carnal, you're not saved.
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#18. Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.
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#19. 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!
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#20. Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.
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#21. When are people finally going to get serious about being serious?
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#22. If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.
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#23. When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it legalism.
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#24. I want to so live that God doesn't have to have to give me one minute's
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#25. Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
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#26. 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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#27. I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.
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#28. Sodom, which had no Bible, no preachers, no tracts, no prayer meetings, no churches, perished. How then will America and England be spared from the wrath of the Almighty, think you? We have millions of Bibles, scores of thousands of churches, endless preachers - and yet what sin!
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#32. Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians
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#33. The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.
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#34. A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
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#37. Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.
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#38. A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.
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#40. Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
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#41. No church group that knows spiritual warfare has wiener roasts or even passion plays. There is a real warfare. I have said before that we are an arrogant, self-styled bunch of believers. We "believe" to the point of inconvenience - and then quit.
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#43. 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.
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#45. By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.
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#46. You won't become a saint by studying your Bible; you'll become a saint by living it.
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#48. The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth.
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#50. Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.
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#52. The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.
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#53. Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.
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#56. Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.
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#57. Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God.
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#58. If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?
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#59. When you're sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness - or you can light a candle.
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#60. There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.
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#61. Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.
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#62. Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation.
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#63. The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding.
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#64. No faith is required to do the possible; actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of.
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#65. 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.
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#66. The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
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#68. Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man's God comes and lives inside of Him!
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#69. 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.
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#70. The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
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#71. Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.
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#73. If Christ waited to be anointed before He went to preach, no young man ought to preach until he, too, has been anointed by the Holy Ghost. - F. B. MEYER
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#74. How do you learn to pray? Well how do you learn to swim? Do you sit in a chair with your feet up drinking coke learning to swim? You get down and you struggle. That's how you learn to pray.
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#75. Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?
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#76. In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.
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#77. You don't need to know the word of God;
you need to know the God of the word.
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#81. The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.
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#82. 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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#83. At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!
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#84. I believe the place of prayer is not only a place where I lose my burdens, but also a place where I get a burden. He shares my burden and I share His burden ... To know that burden, we must hear the voice of the Spirit. To hear that voice, we must be still and know that He is God.
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#86. Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.
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#87. Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!
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#89. I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity.
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#91. One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.
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#92. Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.
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#95. But have we Holy Ghost power-power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?
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#97. The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.
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#98. Tell me what time you spend alone with God ...
and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.
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#99. The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world.
The question is not whether they know the Word of God ...
The question is ... Do they know the God of the Word?
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