I finished 3 days of half-day fast. I am to take a break. Next week I will come back to a more intense form of fasting.
Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill
"The only reason we don't have revival is because we are willing to live without it!”
"If weak in prayer, we are weak everywhere."
"Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?"
"A sinning man stops praying, a praying man stops sinning."
"God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced …with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost."
"My main ambition in life is to be on the devil's most wanted list."
“We may call prayerlessness neglect, or lack of spiritual appetite, or loss of vision. But that which matters is what God calls it. In 1 Samuel 12:23, God calls prayerlessness sin: God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you.”
“Prayer is taxing. Prayer is exacting. Prayer means enduring. Prayer means denying self, a daily dying by choice.”
“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 our modern Christianity, praying is foreign.”
“Satan fears prayer and offsets it at every angle.”
“Prayer is, I think, the language of heaven.”
“You can't live wrong and pray right.”
“No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.”
“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.”
“Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?”
“If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?”
“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).”
“If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.”
“But you know if God should stamp eternity or even judgment on our eyeballs, or if you’d like on the fleshy table of our hearts I am quite convinced we’d be a very, very different tribe of people, God’s people, in the world today. We live too much in time, we’re too earth bound. We see as other men see, we think as other men think. We invest our time as the world invests it. We're supposed to be a different breed of people. I believe that the church of Jesus Christ needs a new revelation of the majesty of God. We’re all going to stand one day, can you imagine it--at the judgment seat of Christ to give an account for the deeds done in the body. This is what--this is the King of kings, and He’s the Judge of judges, and it’s the Tribunal of tribunals, and there’s no court of appeal after it. The verdict is final.”
Out of humility, you would think we would keep quiet on that particular subject until we practice what we preach 
in our own congregations. Let’s not play games with ourselves. Let’s not divert attention away from the weak prayer life of our own churches.
