Ravenhill Quotes to Ponder

Preaching is a spiritual business.  A sermon born in the head reaches the head.  A sermon born in the heart reaches the heart.  A spiritual preacher will under God produce spiritually-minded people.  Unction is not a gentle dove beating her wings outside the bars of the preacher's soul; rather, divine unction must be pursued and won...

 

Unction cannot be learned, only earned by prayer.  Unction is God's knighthood for the soldier-preacher who has wrestled in prayer and gained the victory.  Victory is not won in the pulpit by firing intellectual bullets or wisecracks but in the prayer closet.  The meeting is won or lost before the preacher's foot enters the pulpit.

 

Leonard Ravenhill

Pray For Unction In The Pulpit

 

-H of HC

 Hallelujah! 1053-054

 The Bible Holiness Movement

One does not need to be spiritual to preach, that is, to make and deliver sermons of homiletical perfection and exegetical exactitude.  By a combination of memory, knowledge, ambition, personality, plus well-lined book shelves, self-confidence and a sense of having arrived, brother, the pulpit is yours almost anywhere now.

 

Preaching of this type, affects men.  Prayer affects God.  Preaching affects time, prayer affects eternity.  The pulpit can be a shop window to display our talents. The prayer closet speaks death to display.

 

The tragedy of this later 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

Pray For Unction In The Pulpit

Preachers who should be fishing for men are now too often fishing for compliments from men.

 

Leonard Ravenhill

Pray For Unction In The Pulpit

 

The old masters of the pulpit got their texts on their knees, soaked them with their tears, groaned over them with a travailing spirit, warmed them with strivings in prayer - then delivered the message as a living thing, warm from God's heart, burning in the preacher's heart to make warm the heart of the listeners.  There is no substitute for prayer.  We cannot tell this highbrow generation with science-soaked intellects what our God can do.  We must demonstrate the Gospel!

 

Leonard Ravenhill

Pray For Unction In The Pulpit