Voices and influences
Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill (June 18, 1907 – November 27, 1994) was an English revivalist, outdoor evangelist, and author principally known for his prophetic-confrontational call to revival, sustained holiness, and intercessory prayer.
Summary
This site quotes Leonard Ravenhill 6 times across 6 books, and lists 7 works.
- Lived 1907 to 1994, British.
- Quoted here most in Exodus: 1 of 6.
Leonard Ravenhill
- Lived
- 1907 to 1994
- Nation
- British
- Tradition
- British Wesleyan holiness
- Body
- Methodist
5 of 6 quotations
Own words
Quoted at 50 words or fewer, because Leonard Ravenhill's works are in copyright.
Boy, if I'd taken a stick and divided the Red Sea, I'd thought I'd seen all the glory I needed. If I hit a rock and it split open and it followed the nation wherever they went, I'd say, look at the magic.
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Exodus 33:18 Then Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.” BSB
he gets to verse 17, and he says, father, and he calls him father, and he calls him righteous father, and he calls him holy father, and that holy father demands holy children, and Jesus climaxes his prayer there, where he says, sanctify them through thy truth.
Undated in the archive this site cites.
John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth. BSB
Prayer was made without ceasing by the church unto God for him. They did not seem to be concerned whether Herod should die or not. They did not pray that they might escape Peter's fate.
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Acts 12:5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him. BSB
When Paul claimed to bear in his body the wounds of the Lord, he was claiming no "stigmata," as did Saint Francis of Assisi in 1224 A.D. It is not a bodily identification by outward crucifixion.
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Galatians 6:17 From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. BSB
The thing that gripped me as I read it this week, Christ may be magnified, - not in my ministry - not in my miracles - not in my superlove but, he says, that Christ might be magnified IN MY BODY.
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Philippians 1:20 I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes Leonard Ravenhill 6 times across 6 books.
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Leonard Ravenhill (June 18, 1907 – November 27, 1994) was an English revivalist, outdoor evangelist, and author principally known for his prophetic-confrontational call to revival, sustained holiness, and intercessory prayer. Born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England; trained at Cliff College (Methodist Bible college, Derbyshire, founded by Samuel Chadwick); became one of England's foremost outdoor evangelists in the 1930s–1940s with crowds reportedly numbering in the thousands at street meetings. He emigrated to the United States in 1950 and ministered itinerantly for the rest of his life, settling later in Lindale, Texas. Why Revival Tarries (1959) — with foreword by A.W. Tozer who called Ravenhill "a man sent from God who appeared at this critical moment in history just as the Old Testament prophets did" — has sold 1M+ copies and remains the standard prophetic-revivalist call-to-revival text. Subsequent works include Sodom Had No Bible (1971), Meat for Men (1961), A Treasury of Prayer (1961), Revival God's Way (1983), and Revival Praying (1962). He substantially influenced Keith Green, Paul Washer, David Wilkerson, Charles Stanley, and (through them) generations of evangelical-prophetic-revivalist voices. He died in Lindale, Texas in 1994 and is buried there.
7 works
How to read this voice
Why Revival Tarries
1959, with A.W. Tozer foreword
Standard 20th-c. prophetic-revivalist call-to-revival text; 1M+ copies; foundational for revivalist-prophetic stream. Tozer's foreword called Ravenhill "a man sent from God."
Not quoted on this site yet
Sodom Had No Bible
1971
Ravenhill's articulation of contemporary Western cultural-Christian compromise. The diagnostic that the modern American church has more biblical-resource access than any prior generation while showing less biblical-power.
Not quoted on this site yet
Meat for Men
1961
Ravenhill's sermon-collection on substantive Christian formation; the "meat" framework against milk-only contemporary preaching.
Not quoted on this site yet
Revival God's Way
1983
Ravenhill's mature articulation of revival-theology framework distinguishing genuine Spirit-given revival from manufactured-program revival.
Not quoted on this site yet
Revival Praying
1962
Ravenhill's articulation of prayer-as-revival-precondition.
Not quoted on this site yet
A Treasury of Prayer
1961
Compiled-quotations on prayer from historical Christian-prayer tradition; introductory text in the prayer-emphasis stream.
Not quoted on this site yet
The Last Days Newsletter
SermonIndex.net, Ravenhill.org
Substantial sermon-audio archive at SermonIndex.net documenting Ravenhill's later-life Texas-based ministry.
Not quoted on this site yet
6 quotations across 6 books
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