Quotes from Leonard Ravenhill

If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

He who fears God fears no man.

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?

A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

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 shopwindow to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.

Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?

Yet it is strangely true that we can get more ''apparent'' concern for people across the world than for our perishing neighbors across the street! With all our mass-evangelism, souls are won only in hundreds. Let an atom bomb come and they will fall by the thousands into hell.

You can't live wrong and pray right.

Only when we are thus ''dead to the world and all its toys, its idle pomp and fading joys'' can we feel the freedom that Paul knew.

God asks the best we have Because He gave the Best He had.

There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are!