Quotes from Leonard Ravenhill

He who would teach the people to pray must first himself be given to prayer.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.

Is life's span so dear and are home comforts so engrossing as to be purchased with my unfaithfulness and dry-eyed prayerlessness? At the final bar of God, shall the perishing millions accuse me of materialism coated with a few Scripture verses? ''Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, GIVE ME REVIVAL in my soul and in my church and in my nation—or GIVE ME DEATH!

Such a sinning, repenting ''easy believeism'' dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar.

He who fears God fears no man.

There is a love constraining me To go and seek the lost; I yield, O Lord, my all to Thee To save at any cost!

Madness, you say? Exactly! A sober church never does any good. At this hour we need men drunk with the Holy Ghost.

Prayer—the soul's blood. —GEORGE HERBERT

Dead to the world and all its toys! Its idle pomp and fading joys! Jesus, my glory be!

The birth of a natural child is predated by months of burden and days of travail; so is the birth of a spiritual child.

The Gospel is a fact; therefore tell it simply. The Gospel is a joyful fact; therefore tell it cheerfully. The Gospel is an entrusted fact; therefore tell it faithfully. The Gospel is a fact of infinite moment; therefore tell it earnestly. The Gospel is a fact of infinite love; therefore tell it feelingly. The Gospel is a fact of difficult comprehension to many; therefore tell it with illustration. The Gospel is a fact about a Person; therefore preach Christ. —ARCHIBALD BROWN

what he is to the inscrutable God is what matters.