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Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
Everyone
Clothed
Stripped
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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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There’s a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.
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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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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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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 true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.
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The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.
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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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If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.
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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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We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.
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Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
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A Christian who isn't praying, is only playing!
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The longer I live, the more I find I don't know
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All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.
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Praying Christians know nothing of their friends
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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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The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.
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I want to see the glory of God invade this generation.
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Church unity comes from corporate humility.
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