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The world has lost the power to blush over its vice the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history let's make (some) by the grace of God
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Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.
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Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.
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Christ cared enough for sinners to die for them. Do we care enough for sinners to live to reach them?
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The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
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Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?
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Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.
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You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.
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The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.
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Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!
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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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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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The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth.
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Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.
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The first essential for the coming of the Holy Ghost into a heart today is that the heart should be cleansed from sin, for the Holy Spirit does not fill an unclean heart. What God has cleansed, He then fills. Finally, whom God fills, He uses. A holy life is the authentic sign of being filled with the Spirit.
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The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
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Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.
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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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The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.
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The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
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