Showing posts with label leonard ravenhill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leonard ravenhill. Show all posts

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Challenging the Status Quo

"One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team." -- A.W. Tozer

"We live in a day of itching ears but I have no commission from God to scratch them." -- Leonard Ravenhill

"A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness." -- Jonathan Edwards

"Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender." -- A. W. Tozer

"The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity." -- Leonard Ravenhill

"Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you." - Corrie Ten Boom.

"We put men into pulpits because they have degrees. But you can have 32 of them and still be frozen!" -- Leonard Ravenhill

"We're so far removed from God's way of doing things- we think a man is a good man if he can draw a crowd these days. Do you know what Finney did? Finney preached sometimes, and the whole congregation got up and walked out on him. That's a good meeting! He sent them out horrified! I only preach for two reasons these days: either to send people out that door blazing mad at me or blazing with the peace of the Holy Ghost! That's all!" -- Leonard Ravenhill

"If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life." -- Leonard Ravenhill.

"If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest." -- Corrie Ten Boom

"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart." -- Corrie Ten Boom

Monday, May 30, 2011

More Great Quotes

"One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed." --Leonard Ravenhill

"The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized within the lifetime of the opportunity." -- Leonard Ravenhill

"Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord." -- Leonard Ravenhill

"Prayer is occupation with my needs, praise is occupation with my blessings, but worship is occupation with God Himself." -- Leonard Ravenhill

"Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will molest you, tantalize you, block you, and will surely find some hindrances, big or little or both. And we sometimes fail because we are ignorant of his devices. I do not think he minds our praying about things if we leave it at that. What he minds, and opposes steadily, is the prayer that prays on until it is prayed through, assured of the answer." -- Mary Warburton Booth

"God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible." -- William Booth

"You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. And go not only to those that need you, but to those that need you most. It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take care of this or that society; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as many sinners as you possibly can to repentance." -- John Wesley