Church Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill

Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’

— Leonard Ravenhill

Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.

— Leonard Ravenhill

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.

— Leonard Ravenhill

All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own…

— Leonard Ravenhill

In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'

— Leonard Ravenhill

The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer…

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear…

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but…

— Leonard Ravenhill

Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do…

— Leonard Ravenhill

God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest…

— Leonard Ravenhill

Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting.…

— Leonard Ravenhill

Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my…

— Leonard Ravenhill

The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can…

— Leonard Ravenhill

No church group that knows spiritual warfare has wiener roasts or even passion plays. There is a real warfare. I have said…

— Leonard Ravenhill

The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization,…

— Leonard Ravenhill

The attitude of the average Christian today is relax and be raptured. But He is coming... and when God gets angry you´ve…

— Leonard Ravenhill

The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is…

— Leonard Ravenhill

Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of…

— Leonard Ravenhill

The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!

— Leonard Ravenhill

Church unity comes from corporate humility.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

— Leonard Ravenhill

This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we…

— Leonard Ravenhill

If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.

— Leonard Ravenhill

One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'

— Leonard Ravenhill

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…

— Leonard Ravenhill

I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.

— Leonard Ravenhill