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The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.
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What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?
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The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.
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You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
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God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.
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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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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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We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.
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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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The only vision (many) of you have is television.
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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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Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.
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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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In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.
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They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should be the attitudes of every believer. That's the normal Christian life, not the abnormal Christian life. The normal Christian life is holiness.
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Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.
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There’s a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.
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Church unity comes from corporate humility.
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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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God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!
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