Why Revival Tarries Quotes

“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

“There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“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

“The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“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

“Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“there is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“Sodom, which had no Bible, no preachers, no tracts, no prayer meetings, no churches, perished. How then will America and England be spared from the wrath of the Almighty, think you? We have millions of Bibles, scores of thousands of churches, endless preachers—and yet what sin!”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“if we will do God’s work in God’s way at God’s time with God’s power, we shall have God’s blessing”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“If Christ waited to be anointed before He went to preach, no young man ought to preach until he, too, has been anointed by the Holy Ghost. —F. B. MEYER”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“The evangelists today are very often prepared to be anything to anybody as long as they can get somebody to the altar for something. They glibly call out: ‘‘Who wants help? Who wants more power? Who wants a closer walk with God?’’ Such a sinning, repenting ‘‘easy believeism’’ dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die on. Let those who will not pay this price leave it alone!”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“The Christless cults and deity-dishonoring mushroom religions of this midnight hour tempt the Lord God. Will no one sound the alarm?”
― 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

“The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.”
― 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

“Today God is bypassing men—not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents our stumbling blocks!”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“John the Baptist’s training was in God’s University of Silence. God takes all His great men there.”
― 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

“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

“Preacher brethren, this is the time to blush that we have no shame, the time to weep for our lack of tears, the time to bend low that we have lost the humble touch of servants, the time to groan that we have no burden, the time to be angry with ourselves that we have no anger over the devil’s monopoly in this ‘‘end time’’ hour, the time to chastise ourselves that the world can so easily get along with us and not attempt to chastise us.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“Almost every Bible conference majors on today’s Church being like the Ephesian Church. We are told that, despite our sin and carnality, we are seated with Him. Alas, what a lie! We are Ephesians all right; but, as the Ephesian Church in the Revelation, we have ‘‘left our first love!’’ We appease sin—but do not oppose it. To such a cold, carnal, critical, care-cowed Church, this lax, loose, lustful, licentious age will never capitulate. Let us stop looking for scapegoats. The fault in declining morality is not radio or television. The whole blame for the present international degeneration and corruption lies at the door of the Church!”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“It has been well said that there are only three classes of people in the world today: those who are afraid, those who do not know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“Jesus said, ‘‘Go ye!’’ but He also said, ‘‘Tarry until!’’ Let any man shut himself up for a week with only bread and water, with no books except the Bible, with no visitor except the Holy Ghost, and I guarantee, my preacher brethren, that that man will either break up or break through and out. After that, like Paul, he will be known in hell!”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“And before we can be clean and ready for Him to control, self-seeking, self-glory, self-interest, self-pity, self-righteousness, self-importance, self-promotion, self-satisfaction—and whatsoever else there be of self—must die.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“Unctionized by the Spirit’s might, John cried, ‘‘Repent!’’ And they did! Repentance is not a few hot tears at the penitent form. It is not emotion or remorse or reformation. Repentance is a change of mind about God, about sin, and about hell!”
― 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

“We are not Protestants any more—just ‘‘non-Catholics’’! Of what and of whom do we protest? Were we half as hot as we think we are, and a tenth as powerful as we say we are, our Christians would be baptized in blood, as well as in water and in fire.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“The tragedy of this late hour is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival