Leonard Ravenhill Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Bible, Believe, Book

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.71, Bethany House

• We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Book, Firsts, Theory

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.71, Bethany House

• I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God. I read about Charles G. Finney winning his thousands and his hundreds of thousands of souls to Christ. Then I picked up a book and read the messages of Charles G. Finney and the message of Jonathan Edwards on 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,' and I said, 'No wonder men trembled; no wonder they fell in the altars and cried out in repentance and sobbed their way to the throne of grace!'

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Book, Winning, Past

• You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Book, Reading, Character

• Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Believe, Book, Shame

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

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Bible, Book, Biblical

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.101, Bethany House

• Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Powerful, Book

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.150, Bethany House

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