Erika Mathews > Erika's Quotes

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“He who kneels the most, stands the best.”
― D.L. Moody

“A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“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.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

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

“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. ”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world and make him holy, then put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it legalism.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“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

“My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

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

“Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries

“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. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed).”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“Oh that believers would become eternity-conscious! If we could live every moment of every day under the eye of God, if we did every act in the light of the judgment seat, if we sold every article in the light of the judgment seat, if we prayed every prayer in the light of the judgment seat, if we tithed all our possessions in the light of the judgment seat, if we preachers prepared every sermon with one eye on damned humanity and the other on the judgment seat—then we would have a Holy Ghost revival that would shake this earth and that, in no time at all, would liberate millions of precious souls.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“We have not yet resisted unto blood in prayer; nay, we ‘‘do not even get a sweat on our souls,’’ as Luther put it. We pray with a ‘‘take-it-or-leave-it’’ attitude; we pray chance prayers; we offer that which costs us nothing! We have not even ‘‘strong desire.’’ We rather are fitful, moody, and spasmodic. The only power that God yields to is that of prayer. We will write about prayer-power, but not fight while in prayer.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“The secret of praying is praying in secret.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“When the hammer of logic and the fire of human zeal fail to open the stony heart, unction will succeed.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“How many Christians there are who cannot pray, and who seek by effort, resolve, joining prayer circles, etc., to cultivate in themselves the ‘‘holy art of intercession,’’ and all to no purpose. Here for them and for all is the only secret of a real prayer life—‘‘Be filled with the Spirit,’’ who is ‘‘the Spirit of grace and supplication.’’ —REV. J. STUART HOLDEN”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“The ugly fact is that altar fires are either out or burning very low. The prayer meeting is dead or dying. By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh. What church ever asks its candidating ministers what time they spend in prayer? Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“She could only speak words powerfully for His Kingdom when she’d been abiding in Him and keeping His words as precious within her mind. And that was one thing she certainly hadn’t been doing these last months. Again her head bowed until her forehead touched the blanket. She had some straightening out to do with Adon Olam, immediately. The next battle wouldn’t find her quiver so empty.”
― Erika Mathews, Victory's Voice

“She knew her King. Whatever the future might hold for her, she’d face it with Him—and His Word.”
― Erika Mathews, Victory's Voice