Leonard Ravenhill Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Moving, Church

• Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Lying, Church

• Someone asked me, 'Do you pray for the dead?' I said, 'No, I preach to them! I think every pew in every church is death row. Think about that! They're dead! They sing about God; they talk about God, but they're dead! They have no living relationship (with God).

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Thinking, Church, Praying

• Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Responsibility, Church, Want

• If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Following Christ, Deception, Church

• The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Religion

• The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Believe, Church, Doe

• The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Church, Vices, World

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

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Church, Ships, Cruise

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

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Personality, Church

• 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 miracles.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  College, Men, Miracle

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.100, Bethany House

• 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

  Running, Fire, Christian Inspirational

• When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Church

• But have we Holy Ghost power — power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds, and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Promise, Church

  "Why Revival Tarries".

• I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Play, People, Church

• In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Heart, Religion, Church

• The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Morning, Prayer, Sunday

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

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Church, Entertainment

• All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Enemy, Church, Walking With God

• Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church—with prayer and meditation?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Makeup, Clothes

• Church unity comes from corporate humility.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Humility, Unity, Church

• The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology. She wears the homespuns of sincerity and humility and so is not afraid to kneel!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Philosophy, Humility

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.19, Bethany House

• I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church and sin-- it's a monstrous problem.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  America, Wish, Church

• The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Fashion, Passion, Church

• In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Church, Want, New Testament

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