Ravenhill was educated at Cliff College in England and sat under the ministry of Samuel Chadwick. He regularly taught classes at LDM and was a mentor to the late Keith Green. Among others influenced by Ravenhill were Ravi Zacharias, Steve Hill, Bill Gothard, Paul Washer, and David Wilkerson.
He was a close friend of pastor and writer A. W. Tozer and a prolific writer himself.
Tozer said of Ravenhill:
To such men as this, the church owes a debt too heavy to pay.
The curious thing is that she seldom tries to pay him while he lives. Rather, the next generation builds his sepulcher and writes his biography – as if instinctively and awkwardly to discharge an obligation the previous generation to a large extent ignored.
Leonard Ravenhill passed on in November 1994.
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Reading Leonard Ravenhill (1907-94) is always a stimulating experience. <for true believers>
He was an old-fashioned prophet of the Lord, a prayer-warrior and a valiant preacher of the truth. He left no one indifferent and his writings continue to stir thousands.
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Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy.
Today Christians spend more money on dog food than missions.
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.
The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church…grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.