Quote

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

Leonard Ravenhill

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
Personality
Married
Persecutions
Poverty
Prisons
Church
Persecution
Christian
Popularity
Today
Prosperity
Prison
Early

More quotes by Leonard Ravenhill

Image
Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
You can have all of your doctrines right—yet still not have the presence of God.
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
God asks the best we have Because He gave the Best He had.
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken when they had prayed, the place was shaken!
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice! It's not a glamous gospel ,but a bloody gospel, a gory gospel, and a sacrificial gospel! 5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more, prayed more, given more!!!
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
This silly world outside thinks it is finished with Jesus Christ but they haven't even started with Him yet.
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
Prayer is no substitute for work equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.
Leonard Ravenhill
Image
You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
Leonard Ravenhill