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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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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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Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.
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We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.
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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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When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
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The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.
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Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them.
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Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins.
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There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.
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This silly world outside thinks it is finished with Jesus Christ but they haven't even started with Him yet.
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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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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 world has lost the power to blush over its vice the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
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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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Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken when they had prayed, the place was shaken!
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Prayer is no substitute for work equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.
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He who fears God fears no man.
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The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
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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!
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The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!
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