261 Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill

The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.

Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.

The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.

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.

Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!

The ugly fact is that altar fires are either out or burning very low. The prayer meeting is dead or dying. By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh. What church ever asks its candidating ministers what time they spend in prayer? Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.

Until the church is holy there’ll be no rapture – I don’t care what theory of the rapture you have.

Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.