Quotes about Devotion
Prayer—the soul's blood. —GEORGE HERBERT
— Leonard Ravenhill
Dead to the world and all its toys! Its idle pomp and fading joys! Jesus, my glory be!
— Leonard Ravenhill
If we will give God time, He will give us timeless souls.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The price is high. God does not want partnership with us, but ownership of us.
— Leonard Ravenhill
To make my weak heart strong and brave, Send the fire. To live a dying world to save, send the fire. Oh, see me on Thy altar lay My life, my all, this very day; To crown the offering now, I pray: Send the fire! —F. de L. Booth-Tucker
— Leonard Ravenhill
Paul's was an exemplary life.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The cost might be prison, for it were better that he should be ''the prisoner of the Lord'' for a few years than that his fellow men should be the devil's prisoners in hell forever.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The sweet hour of prayer as a mid-week breather in the church has been reduced to a sweet twenty minutes of prayer.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Yet again in writing to a friend of John Smith he says, "I have often seen him come downstairs in the morning after several hours in prayer, his eyes swollen with weeping. He would soon introduce the subject of his anxiety by saying, 'I am a brokenhearted man; yes, indeed, I am an unhappy man, not for myself but on account of others. God has given me such a sight of the value of precious souls that I cannot live if souls are not saved. Oh give me souls, or else I die!
— Leonard Ravenhill
Brethren, to our knees again,
— Leonard Ravenhill
Neglect of prayer is an effrontery to God, for by it we are saying that we have confidence in the flesh and can operate the spiritual life on a do-it-yourself basis.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails. —E. M. BOUNDS
— Leonard Ravenhill