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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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The most shattering thought I've ever had is my personal accountability to God one day
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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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This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!
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Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.
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My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.
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The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
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Are you wiser in God (now) than you were last year at this time? Peter says we're to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
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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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We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.
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The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth.
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LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!
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The question isn't were you challenged. The question is were you changed?
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God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!
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Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
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The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.
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By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.
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If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.
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The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!
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It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross.
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