Leonard Ravenhill

The trouble today is that we have too many dead preachers giving out dead sermons.

There's nothing on earth second to preaching, not even a job in the White House.

If God should stamp eternity on our eyes, I'm quite convinced we'd be a very different people.

A diploma will not make a preacher any more than a leather girdle will make a man a prophet.

Apostolic piety, apostolic purity, and apostolic power are the needs of today.

I do not mind preaching people into conviction, but I do not want to preach them into bondage.

There's no one who can give you true authority to preach, besides God - not your seminary, denomination or anyone else.

There are three things missing from modern preaching -- immensity, intensity, and eternity.

Live on your knees out of the pulpit, but stand on your feet in it, and boldly proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

Stick to the good news. Jesus came to free us, not frighten us.

A sermon born in the head reaches the head, but a sermon born in the heart reaches the heart.

I am tired of preachers who act like lions in the pulpit, but alley-cats outside of it.

The prophet is violated during his ministry, but vindicated by history.

What is the preachers job? To prepare people for eternity.

In every generation, God always raises up true preachers.

I am sure that the hardest thing to get in this world is the anointing of God upon your life, and it is the hardest thing to keep also.

Let us say nothing that will draw men to ourselves, but only that will move men to God.

It takes men made new to make things new.

I preached as a dying man to dying men, and as if I would never preach again. -Richard Baxter

Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises of God to enforce thy prayers and make them prevail with God.