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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world. The question is not whether they know the Word of God.... The question is......Do they know the God of the Word?
Leonard Ravenhill
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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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Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested.
Leonard Ravenhill
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The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.
Leonard Ravenhill
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The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.
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Praying Christians know nothing of their friends
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The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.
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Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.
Leonard Ravenhill
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The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!
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Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.
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A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.
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The only power that God yields to is that of prayer.
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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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If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!
Leonard Ravenhill
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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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Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the exceeding greatness of God's power to us.
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The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
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God asks the best we have Because He gave the Best He had.
Leonard Ravenhill
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Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?
Leonard Ravenhill
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You can have all of your doctrines right—yet still not have the presence of God.
Leonard Ravenhill