Leonard Ravenhill

quotes from the late preacher, author, revivalist and prayer warrior

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

The trouble today is that we have too many dead preachers giving out dead sermons.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

There's nothing on earth second to preaching, not even a job in the White House.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

If God should stamp eternity on our eyes, I'm quite convinced we'd be a very different people.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

A diploma will not make a preacher any more than a leather girdle will make a man a prophet.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

Apostolic piety, apostolic purity, and apostolic power are the needs of today.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

I do not mind preaching people into conviction, but I do not want to preach them into bondage.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

There's no one who can give you true authority to preach, besides God - not your seminary, denomination or anyone else.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

There are three things missing from modern preaching -- immensity, intensity, and eternity.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

Live on your knees out of the pulpit, but stand on your feet in it, and boldly proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

Stick to the good news. Jesus came to free us, not frighten us.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

A sermon born in the head reaches the head, but a sermon born in the heart reaches the heart.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

I am tired of preachers who act like lions in the pulpit, but alley-cats outside of it.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

The prophet is violated during his ministry, but vindicated by history.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

What is the preachers job? To prepare people for eternity.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

In every generation, God always raises up true preachers.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

I am sure that the hardest thing to get in this world is the anointing of God upon your life, and it is the hardest thing to keep also.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

Let us say nothing that will draw men to ourselves, but only that will move men to God.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

It takes men made new to make things new.

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

I preached as a dying man to dying men, and as if I would never preach again.

-Richard Baxter

[Leonard Ravenhill @LenRavenhill]

Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises of God to enforce thy prayers and make them prevail with God.