Ravenhill Quotes

“The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.”

“Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?”

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

“Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?”

“And I think a long time ago there were big stories. Stories so big you could live your whole life in them. The Powerful Hands of the Gods and Fate. The Journey to Enlightenment. The March of Socialism. But they all died or the world grew up or grew senile or forgot them, so now we're making up our own stories. Little stories. But we've each got one.”

“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.”

“The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.”

“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.”

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

“Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal”