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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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Church
Lost
Power
World
Blush
Weep
Vice
Vices

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Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies.
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A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.
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Praying Christians know nothing of their friends
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Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.
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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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Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
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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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God asks the best we have Because He gave the Best He had.
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Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.
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When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
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Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.
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Great eagles fly alone great lions hunt alone great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.
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Gethsemane is where He died the cross is only the evidence.
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When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.
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The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete.
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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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There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.
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The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
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I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?
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