Religion Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion

— Leonard Ravenhill

I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

The only reason we don't have revival is because we are willing to live without it!

— Leonard Ravenhill

Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is…

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.

— Leonard Ravenhill

We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.

— 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

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest…

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

“I have said before that one of these days, someone will read the Bible for the first time, believe it, and act…

— Leonard Ravenhill

I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church…

— Leonard Ravenhill

“One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest…

— Leonard Ravenhill

The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the…

— Leonard Ravenhill

We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of…

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

— 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

If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and…

— Leonard Ravenhill

It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility.

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

The world doesn´t believe the Bible, Christians don´t obey the Bible.

— Leonard Ravenhill

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man's God comes and lives inside of Him!

— Leonard Ravenhill

Christ cared enough for sinners to die for them. Do we care enough for sinners to live to reach them?

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God.

— Leonard Ravenhill