Leonard Ravenhill Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Revival

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

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Moving, Church

• No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Fashion, Prayer, Passion

• No man is greater than his prayer life.

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  Prayer, Men, Christianity

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.25, Bethany House

• Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Moving, Exercise

• Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Gossip, Praying

• 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.

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  Prayer, Men, Religion

• A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.

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  Prayer, Men, Soul

• Surely revival delays because prayer decays.

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  Prayer, Decay, Delay

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.85, Bethany House

• 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".

• The secret of praying is praying in secret.

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  Prayer, Secret, Praying

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

• Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

• 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

• If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

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  God, Faith, Christian

• If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

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  Prayer, Night, Soul

• Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.

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  Prayer, Blessing, Needs

• Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Prayer, Preparation

• 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?

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  Prayer, Makeup, Clothes

• 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!

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  Prayer, Philosophy, Humility

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

• Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Fasting

• I believe the place of prayer is not only a place where I lose my burdens, but also a place where I get a burden. He shares my burden and I share His burden. ... To know that burden, we must hear the voice of the Spirit. To hear that voice, we must be still and know that He is God.

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  Prayer, Believe, Voice

• The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Power helpeth our infirmity in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Life ends our deadness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Wisdom delivers us from ignorance in this holy art ofprayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Fire delivers us from coldness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Might comes to our aid in our weakness as we pray.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Art, Prayer, Ignorance

• 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 shop window to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.

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  Prayer, Past, Men

• The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.

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  Prayer, America, People

• No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Care

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