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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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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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But have we Holy Ghost power — power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds, and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?
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Redemption is a magnificent thing ..the life of God in the soul of man
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Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
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To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.
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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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