Observations

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

A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.

Church unity comes from corporate humility.

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

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

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.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don’t even have the strength to turn off your TV?

The only time you can really say that ‘Christ is all I need,’ is when Christ is all you have

There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.

I’m embarrassed to be part of the Church of Jesus today, because I believe it’s an embarrassment to a holy God!

We’re preaching an acceptable Gospel today, making it as painless as we can. And all we do is give people a shot to put them to sleep so they get to hell quicker. We need some hellfire preaching on repentance

We find no errors in the Bible. All errors are in the pews.From "A Burning Heart"

Reading these quotes, these words, I only have one wish:GOD, have mercy upon me!

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

The Bible is either absolute, or it’s obsolete.

You can’t develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

To me it is a shocking commentary on present Christian feebleness that while, in the first century, 120 men could move from an upper-room closet and shake Jerusalem, nowadays 120 churches claiming a like experience of the Holy Spirit can be in one of our cities and yet that city at large hardly know they are there. In our spiritual warfare the churches must be shooting with dummy bullets. To change the figure, we must spiritually be running with empty freight cars.

You can have all of your doctrines right—yet still not have the presence of God.

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?

I am convinced that in the current welter of confusion, theological as well as moral, there are still many asking, “Is there any word from the Lord?”They are not interested in your theological juggling act, your elastic vocabulary, your re-hashing of some recent political event or the near doom of the stock market. They want a word of Redemption!

The only time you can really say that ‘Christ is all I need,’ is when Christ is all you have.

You can know a lot about the atonement, and yet receive no benefit from it.

The Holy Spirit is no one’s errand boy.

The greatest tragedy ever, is a sick church in a dying world

If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there’s something wrong.

Revival tarries because evangelism is so highly commercialized...revival tarries because of cheapening tha gospel...revival tarries because of carelessness...revival tarries because of fear...revival tarries because we lack urgency in prayer...revival tarries because we steal the glory that belongs to God.

Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?

Perils to members of the Body demand concern, concentration, and consecration to a committed plan of prayer.Leonard Ravenhill

I believe the place of prayer is not only a place where I loose 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.

This calamitous hour in the affairs of men demands a church healthier than the one we have. This blatant manifestation of evil in the youth and in the violation of God’s commandments throughout the world calls for a faith that will not shrink.

Can you imagine the Apostle Paul daring to step into Rome, this city of hatred and violence with any less comprehension of the power of the Cross than he had?Our gimmick-geared gospel would have fallen as flat in that day as in our day. Can you imagine Paul and his party confronting this pagan, wicked hoard with hip-swinging girls and hand-clapping boys singing, “Something Good is Going to Happen to you,” or offering them a Prosperity Pack for a donation?L. RavenhillSodom had no Bible

The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.

My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil’s most wanted list.

Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don’t fit our testimonies.

Today’s Church wants to be raptured from responsibility.

I don’t think you have to die a martyr’s death to be a martyr. You can be a living sacrifice, you can die to advantages, you can die to temptations, you can die to privileges, you can die to all those things that don’t add to spiritual life, that don’t add to spiritual vision, that don’t add to spiritual understanding.L. R.

At God's counter there are no "SALE DAYS," for the price of revival is ever the same - TRAVAIL.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

Here's a sad fact.Unless the minister of a local church is on fire---hint, hint---people pray revival into your pastors hearts or ask God to remove him----then they will not allow an on fire Evangelist to come. That's a fact.When a preacher comes with fire and a quickening of the Holy Spirit that's often a threat to a pastor.Just something to think about.

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.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

The self-righteous never apologize.Leonard Ravenhill

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.Leonard Ravenhill