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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
World
Blush
Weep
Vice
Vices
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I believe the place of prayer is not only a place where I lose my burdens, but also a place where I get a burden. He shares my burden and I share His burden. ... To know that burden, we must hear the voice of the Spirit. To hear that voice, we must be still and know that He is God.
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The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.
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We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.
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Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.
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A saint is good when nobody is looking.
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It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying.
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Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?
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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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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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The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.
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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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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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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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I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.
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The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.
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We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets
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Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.
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Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man's God comes and lives inside of Him!
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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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God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.
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