Leonard Ravenhill

My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.

Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!

Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.

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.

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._x000D_ The question is not whether they know the Word of God...._x000D_ The question is......Do they know the God of the Word?

Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church—with prayer and meditation?

The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary.

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

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.

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.

In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.

I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God

The darker it gets, the brighter your light will shine.

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.

The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology. She wears the homespuns of sincerity and humility and so is not afraid to kneel!

The only people who want to change the Gospel are those who are unchanged by it.

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