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The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.

Leonard Ravenhill

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity wickedness is now weakness devilry is now deficiency.
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I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.
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The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.
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The only power that God yields to is that of prayer.
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We are not eternity conscious enough.
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Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated.
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He who fears God fears no man.
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If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
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Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies.
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Redemption is a magnificent thing ..the life of God in the soul of man
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The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers is considered a go-getter, but to urge our young people to rise at 5:30 to pray is considered fanaticism. We must once again wear the harness of discipline. There is no other way.
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We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.
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The darker it gets, the brighter your light will shine.
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Some preachers master thier subjects some subjects master the preacher once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of, and also mastered by his subject. The apostle Paul, I am sure, was in that category.
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Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.
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Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish.
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You won't become a saint by studying your Bible you'll become a saint by living it.
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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.)
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In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.
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No faith is required to do the possible actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of.
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