How do you learn to pray? Well how do you learn to swim? Do you sit in a chair with your feet up drinking coke learning to swim? You get down and you struggle. That's how you learn to pray. Leonard Ravenhill More Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill More Quotes From Leonard Ravenhill I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God Leonard Ravenhill tired sick reading If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ. Leonard Ravenhill following-christ deception church We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment. Leonard Ravenhill endowment equipment agonizing We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living. Leonard Ravenhill lazy christian men Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees. Leonard Ravenhill degrees prayer two No faith is required to do the possible; actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of. Leonard Ravenhill atoms pieces stuff Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you? Leonard Ravenhill doe world If I don't believe the Word of God, why should you believe it? If we don't believe it, why should the world believe us? Leonard Ravenhill should believe world Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting. It's being tried, found difficult and rejected! Leonard Ravenhill balance christianity found Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat. Leonard Ravenhill sweat soul prayer No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life. Leonard Ravenhill care prayer men But have we Holy Ghost power — power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds, and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church? Leonard Ravenhill church prayer promise Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation. Leonard Ravenhill moral climate facts We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten. Leonard Ravenhill sunday land men Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped. Leonard Ravenhill christianity want Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated. Leonard Ravenhill prayer spiritual past The longer I live, the more I find I don't know Leonard Ravenhill christianity knows We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes. Leonard Ravenhill smoking-cigarettes cigarette smoking Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion Leonard Ravenhill preaching profession passion We must live a holy life if we want to pray. Leonard Ravenhill religious christian god