Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.

Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal

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.

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.

The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.

The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.

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.

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 eternitys values in view?

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

If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!