Ravenhill Quotes 2

"If I could push the door of heaven and you could peep through it for 5 min. you will never backslide! You'd change your lifestyle, you'd change your conversation style, you'd change your eating style, you'd change everything! Listen, you and I are supposed to be eternity conscious; the world out there is blind and dumb and deaf and it's crazy!"-Leonard Ravenhill, Choosing rather to suffer

"There are more decisions for Christ these days than ever in history, but never a few are disciples."-Leonard Ravenhill, Choosing rather to suffer

A hundred years from now by Warren ParkerIt will not make much difference friend a hundred years from nowif you live in a stately mansion or a floating river scowif the clothes you wear were a tailor made or just pieced together somehowIf you eat big steaks or beans and cake a hundred years from nowWon't matter what your bank account or the maker of car you drivefor the grave will claim all your riches and fame and the things for which you striveThere's a deadline that we all must meet, noone will show up lateit won't matter all the places you've been, each one will keep that dateWe will only have in eternity what we gave away on earthwhen we go to the grave we can only save the things of eternal worthwhat matters friend the earthly gain for which some men will bowfor your destiny will be sealed you see a hundred years from nowAs quoted by Leonard Ravenhill, Choosing rather to suffer

Great eagles fly alone;great lions hunt alone;great souls walk alone - alone with God. L. Ravenhill

To live well you don't have to live long. L. Ravenhill

Too often we hide ourselves from ourselves lest the sight of ourselvesshould sicken ourselves. L. Ravenhill

"He didn't came to make bad men good, He came to make dead men live"-Leonard Ravenhill

Roadsign,Thank You for posting this quote by L. Ravenhill.It has really ministered to me.

You see, the dificult things is when you start to move in sprituality, it's very easy to bear the criticism of the world, the roughness of the world, it is criticism of saints that get you down, someone says Oh don't do that you are getting to serious, you know our people will warn you - Don't get too spiritual, you never heard anybody saying "Don't get to rich", "Don't get to much educations" but "Don't get too much spiritual" -Leoanard Ravenhill (Give me souls or I'll die ~ 20min)

I am sorry I do not remember where I heard this, I have been listening to Ravenhill so much, I forgot which sermon he said this. If one of you remembers, please add it. Well here, it goes again:"The greatest temptation for a Christian is once he or she is on the cross, is to come down off of it."“Christ did not come to make bad men good, but to make dead men live.”

One my favorites although I can't remember it exactly or where I heard it:"The problem for many is the cross is a tourist attraction, but very few actually get on it"Blessings.

"Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians"- Leonard Ravenhill

There is no burden too heavy, there is no situation too hard for the one that you love- Leonard Ravenhill

"I'm tired of bondage, I'm tired of fear, I'm tired of weakness, I'm tired of being hot then cold, strong then weak, I want to get rid of self-live, I want to die right here"-Leonard Ravenhill (in his early ages, taken from "What is your live? (video)" ~ 68 min

Let me tell you this: 'An experience of God that cost nothing, does nothing and its worth nothing -Leonard Ravenhill

And I believe that God is holding back, until we get to the point where we say, “I can’t live another day without the fire of God!” You need the fire of God to pray! You need the fire of God to see visions! You need the fire off God to RECOGNIZE…there is no help for us!

Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with God.

"I have God, Jesus and two thirds of the angels on my side, what do you think I am going to do? Sit down and cry?" Love this quote! (Hopefully didn't misquote it)

"Because we have no sense of the majesty of God, we have no sense of the sinfulness of sin"
-Leonard Ravenhill

There are three classes of people in the world:
1.Those who are afraid
2.Those who don't know enough to be afraid
3.Those who know their God!
-Leonard Ravenhill

"Great weepers in private are great reapers in public."

- L. Ravenhill

Your doctrine is right, but your life is wrong!
-Leonard Ravenhill

The only time you can say Christ is all you need,
when Christ is all you have.
-Leonard Ravenhill

My generation is not so heavenly minded that it is no earthly use, it is so earthly minded that it is of no heavenly use!
-Leonard Ravenhill

Revival doesn't cost a penny but a broken hearts, and people that refused to live. They said: 'Lord change my lifestyle, change my habbits, change my sleeping, I don't want America to go to hell'.
-Leonard Ravenhill (Hannah - effectual prayer)

I'm tired of paper theology! I'm tired you telling me: 'It's going to happen', they told me that 60 years ago, 'It's going to happen, it's nearly there'. Our Paul (his son) told me the other week: 'Daddy we keep asking God for something that is almost on our fingertips, and we don't want it really...I don't want revival in you, I want revival in me, I don't want you to weep for the lost, [u]I[/u] want to weep for the lost!
-Leonard Ravenhill (Anahiem Talk on Revival)

"The God of holiness and eternal majesty is hardly mentioned these days. The preachers used to declare with holy boldness to the pew dwellers, "You are lost." Today it is, "You are loved."

"Do any of our seminaries have a course entitled, 'Weeping for the Lost'? And if a man should graduate in that course, is there an advanced class for those who would howl in grief between the porch and the altar over our sin-saturated society?"

"No preacher leaves the closet of prayer with a sweat on his soul and offers a world of rebels the feeble utterance, "God loves you," without also stating, "God is angry with the wicked every day." No preacher is going to skip into the pulpit with the "good news" that his church won the top honors in the interchurch bowling league if he has come from the closet of prayer with eternity blazing in his eyes. No man is going to fear devils or deacons if he has heard the word of the Lord in the secret place of the Most High."

- Leonard Ravenhill

If your preacher doesn't weep over the pew, let the pew weep over preacher!
-Leonard Ravenhill

"You think Christ died for this carnal institution we call "the church" today? not on your life."
Leonard Ravenhill

"Preachers who should be fishing for men are now too often fishing for compliments from men."
Leonard Ravenhill

I think it is a danger of seeking revival to justify my ministry, to prove "we are the best people in the town". What is it say in Malachi "the Lord, whom ye seek". [b]We are not seeking HIM,[/b] we are seeking revival, we are seeking healings, we are seeking miracles. It's not that we need! If we get God , we get all that's need it!
-Leonard Ravenhill

A diploma won't give you unction, a degree won't give you unction, you can't buy it. you buy it with grieve! [b]you buy it with your bankruptcy[/b]!
-Leonard Ravenhill

"What we need now is a revival of holiness. A revival of character. A revival of people who are utterly selfless and prepared to lay their lives on the altar for God." Leonard Ravenhill

"I dont believe that a man is a martyr for Christ because he gets burned at the stake. I dont believe he's a martyr because he gets shot. That proves he is a martyr.

I'll risk being misunderstood, i've said it before. Jesus didn't die on the cross, He died in Gethsemene. 'Not my will but thine be done'. The cross is the evidence of His death, he has already died"

- Leonard Ravenhill in "Sufer here or sufer there" 34:54-35:27

Arguably the best quote thus far for me. My friend had never heard of Leonard Ravenhill, he was born again within the catholic church, alone in his room and his bible.....God spoke to Him. He became a christian.

He said to me EXACTLY the same thing around 1 year ago. "Jesus didn't die on the cross, He died in Gethsemene."

I then said it to some of the preachers at my church and they laughed, scorned and mocked.......

It is still my favourite line, even before Ravenhill said it. Funnily enough my friend also said "No offerings in any of our church services"......lol the same as Ravenhill.......and both believed in "Perfection"

How amazing is that huh? Look at God's un-perverted truth!!!

Amen.

God is not concerned about the size of your head, it is the size of your heart that matters!
-Leonard Ravenhill

Don't get weary in doing good: Somebody says you prayed too long. So what!?

We live in a world that it has lost his way, and a church the has lost its voice. [b]That voice has to come![/b]
-Leonard Ravenhill

The most afwul thing in America today is not sin, as we thing of it drunkenness and abortion, I believe [b]the greatest hindrance in the world tonight is unbelief![/b]
[b]We do not believe our God![/b] And that's what He ask from us.
-Leonard Ravenhill

Disciples did not believe the Lord Jesus, if they believed Him, they would been lining up at the tomb, but they weren't lining up at the tomb. They were far, far away.
I think most amazing thing, and most disgusting thing in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ was that morning when He woke up from the resurection, and there wasn't a single person to meet Him! He told them over and over again, I am gonna rise from the death, but they just ignore Him, but He rose. And I believe it was there, that psalm 24 was shouted by milions of angels in heaven:

"Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. "
[b]We have to recapture the majesty of Jesus Christ![/b]
-Leonard Ravenhill

We are stacked up with teology today. [b]But where is the living Christ?[/b]
-L.Ravenhill

We have so wonderful people in the world today: we have people that walk at the bottom of the ocean, we've got people walking on the moon, but [b]we need men walking with God![/b]
-Leonard Ravenhill

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

"Finney would preach as many as 28 nights and leave people in misery night after night. He didn't try to get them through quickly. You want to commit sins 15 years and then forget it in 15 seconds? God says no." Leonard Ravenhill

We have such a shallow understanding of the principle of sowing and planting, and it's no wonder we don't see revival.

you make a good point there, jesse.

the problem is that you and your group preach nothing like finney. definetly with no Holy Spirit fire like finney, but instead you and your group are spewing out strange fire that is more from hell.

jesse, please stop hardening your heart, and take heed to God's warnings before things get worse.

I feel as happy as a man tonight that has found the secret of
life and he could go to every dead person and grant them life.
I feel happy as a man who has found somehow the mystery
of solving the curse that enslaves millions of people diseased
in hospitals tonight. People in whom the lamp of reason is
flickering because they are mentally imbalanced. I feel as though
I have that answer in my hand. And I won't feel more happy
tonight to go and emancipate every sin shacked body than I am
tonight to preach to limited audience like this, and say to you
irrespective of your need tonight that I don't care a stamp of the
things about your malady. For the malady doesn't matter, it's
the remedy that matters. And however cursed and crooked and
deformed and twisted your life may be, if you're in bondage to
secret sin, the Word says here in it's wonderful emancipation
that [b]He![/b]

not a system of religion,
not a series of pilgrimages,
not by genuflecting to the altar,
not by turning to the east to say your prayers,
not by making the sign of the cross,
not by the resolution of your will,
not by something which is hereditary, or something imagined hallowed,

but free grace abounds tonight whereby He is able to save you to the uttermost on one condition, and that condition is that you come to God by Him.

Sound Bite: http://ibobs.org/mp3/Quotes/Ravenhill-HeIsAbleQuote.mp3

"I think Lord when we get to eternity, some of us lived many years, but if you cut us all off tonight and sweep us into eternity, we'll discover that we are only in spiritual waters to our ankles, not to our knees, not to our loins.
We are still paddling on the edge of the ocean of the possibilities of grace."
-LR

God has opened His treasure house to us. As I've used the phrase so often before: Do we really explore the possibilities of God?
What's the most exciting thing in your life? Don't answer me, answer straight up to God. Tell Him what is the most exciting thing.
That you become more knowledgeable, make more money, become more fit?
What is the most exciting thing to you?
Is it that day by day you slip in to Him and worship and adore Him?

Amen Brian! I love that quote!

[edit] oops, this isn't a Ravenhill quote. :-o sorry.

[edit again] "...you try to be mature in God, and the dwarfs around will look and sneer at you and say 'you're trying to be holier than the rest of us huh'"

reputation is what men think you are character is what God knows you are.

reputation is what men think you are character is what God knows you are.

We are seeking blessing,
We are seeking success,
We are seeking ministry
God is seeking sacrifice!
-L.R.

And anything that cost you nothing is worth nothing to God!
-L.R.

Lord, at the Judgment Seat when maybe there be fifteen million eyes or billions eyes looking on me, don't stand there in Your Majesty, and read the record of my POOR life, and say: Son, I had many things to tell you, but you couldn't BEAR them, you were too OCCUPIED! Your ears were catching other voices, but not mine! That's why that damnable TV has to get out of the way, you are hearing all about men, than you hear about God! That's all got to change!

You see, people are terribly worried about eternal security, I am far more worried about false security.

We've got more people laboring on the false security right now in the church of living God than any period we've every known.
-L.Ravenhill

There is only one thing I think the devil can't fake, and that's a holy life.
-L.Ravenhill

"you are not going to pray because your head is overloaded with theology, it is the intimacy!....

You see every time I see a lost man is just not only going to hell, he is robbing Jesus Christ of a useful intellect and a useful mind and a useful heart and a useful spirit"

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.
-Leonard Ravenhill

You say God changed my life, Listen, there is only one prove for that, and that is the change of your [i]lifestyle[/i]!
-L.Ravenhill

Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrell and just as empty.

- Leonard Ravenhill

"The playboys of yesterday are the payboys of evangelism."

-Is Soul Hot Preaching a Lost Art? Why Revival Tarries.

The following quotes are from the sermon, [b]A Burning Heart.[/b]

"The salvation of America does not depend on the White House, I don't care who gets there. It depends on God's house."

"Scientists don't believe in eternity but they'll believe in infinity."

"They say they've invented a new chip for, what do you call them, computers? It's as big as your fingernail and you can store 250,000 statements on the chip. Well, God doesn't need fingernails, but He knows the name of everybody that's lived since Adam."

"If your preacher doesn't weep over the congregation, weep over your preacher."

"When God is angry with a nation, it has no prophets. I don't know of a prophet in America today."

"The reason you're a dwarf spiritually is you won't eat the Word of God, you won't wait on Him, you won't hear His voice and you won't obey Him! The secret to revival is [i]obedience![/i] You can't obey what you don't know!"

"Christians are worried about the World Series but they won't take the world seriously."

"Do you know why we don't have revival? Because we're content to live without it, number one. And the second thing is, the price is too high! And the third thing is we couldn't handle it if it came!"

"A man with the Holy Spirit does holy things. If you have the Holy Ghost, you'll live a holy life. If you have a holy life, you'll be easy to live with. If you have a holy life, nobody on earth - or in hell - can offend you. Once you get a clean heart - a sanctified heart, I like to call it - it won't make a hill of beans who likes you or dislikes you."

"There's a great joy in having nothing. You can't lose anything."

"The choice in America is either we concentrate in praying or we pray in concentration camps. Make your choice. Most preachers spend more time in bed than they do out of it. If you're under 40 years of age, I don't see any reason why you should be in bed after four o'clock in the morning."

"Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. There's a king in America. His name is called Sport and his wife is called Entertainment."

"Praise is the gateway to worship. Worship is the gateway to adoration. Adoration is what you do in prostrate on the floor."

"Don't forget, the house on the rock went through the same storm as the house on the sand." - from Purity and Fire part 2

A woman came to Jesus, loaded with sins, and He says, "I love you. Go home and sin less." Well, what did He say? Sin [i]no more![/i]

You can tell how popular a church is by how many come sunday morning, you can tell how popular a preacher is by how many come sunday night, you can tell how popular God is on how many show up for prayer meeting. LH

This really [i]is[/i] a quote from brother Ravenhill! He said it tongue in cheek. As you know, he was fond of his own quips!

"Women have been a problem from Adam's rib to women's lib!"