Revival Praying Quotes

“Prayer does not condition God; prayer conditions us. Prayer does not win God to our view; it reveals God’s view to us.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying: An Urgent and Powerful Message for the Family of Christ

“There is something very questionable and unbiblical about those who claim a baptism of the Spirit and yet know nothing of extended periods in prayer.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying: An Urgent and Powerful Message for the Family of Christ

“He who would teach the people to pray must first himself be given to prayer.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying: An Urgent and Powerful Message for the Family of Christ

“The early church prayed. Every revival church has prayed. Every participant in revival prayer has known travail. Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to or modern Christianity, praying is foreign.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying: An Urgent and Powerful Message for the Family of Christ

“We need prayer to obtain victory, and then prayer to maintain victory. We need to pray about our praying. We must pray unction upon others as they are praying. We must pray alone. We must pray together. We must pray in the night, and not cease in the day. Lord, teach us to pray!”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying: An Urgent and Powerful Message for the Family of Christ

“Faith is the muscle by which we lift the load. Faith is the currency by which we make purchases in the spiritual Kingdom. Faith is spiritual sight. Men of faith see--they see the unseeable. Men of faith known a dimension that is unknown to those who pray only routine prayers.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying: An Urgent and Powerful Message for the Family of Christ

“I have said before that one of these days, someone will read the Bible for the first time, believe it, and act on it with a daring, simple faith. Then we long-time believers will bow in shame crying, 'Lord, help our unbelief.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying: An Urgent and Powerful Message for the Family of Christ

“I believe the failure stems back to our poverty in prayer. To offer different brands of politics as a cure-all for this sick age is like handing out aspirins to incurable cancer patients.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying: An Urgent and Powerful Message for the Family of Christ

“Yet again in writing to a friend of John Smith he says, “I have often seen him come downstairs in the morning after several hours in prayer, his eyes swollen with weeping. He would soon introduce the subject of his anxiety by saying, ‘I am a brokenhearted man; yes, indeed, I am an unhappy man, not for myself but on account of others. God has given me such a sight of the value of precious souls that I cannot live if souls are not saved. Oh give me souls, or else I die!”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying: An Urgent and Powerful Message for the Family of Christ

“Neglect of prayer is an effrontery to God, for by it we are saying that we have confidence in the flesh and can operate the spiritual life on a do-it-yourself basis.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying: An Urgent and Powerful Message for the Family of Christ

“If we today could rediscover the virtue in that Name, the victory in that Name, the violence in that Name, we could set this world alight for God. Most of us have enough grace to scrape through the day, but we have nothing over. We are conquerors but are not “more than conquerors.” We can fight off the enemy but cannot take any prisoners. Ours is a defense action, not an attacking power.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying: An Urgent and Powerful Message for the Family of Christ