A few issues ago The Voice Christian News & Views magazine featured an article on the late Leonard Ravenhill, a great Christian of our time who always seemed to have just the right thing to say at the right moment. I'm often led to turn to his quotes for a quick 'spiritual uplift', guaranteed to set the grey matter working.
I thought that today I'd share a selection from them with you, so here they are:
"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. A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. We live in a generation that has never known revival God's way. True revival changes the moral climate of an area or a nation. Without exception, all true revivals of the past began after years of agonizing, hell-robbing, earth-shaking, heaven-sent intercession. The secret to true revival in our own day is still the same. But where, oh, where, are the intercessors?"
"The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer."
"A man who kneels before God will stand before men."
"No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life."
"To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different."
"A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry
for God."
"If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all."
"The one thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history."
"Are the things you're living for worth Christ dying for?"
"We’ll have no broken-hearted pews until we have broken-hearted pulpits."
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