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Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

Leonard Ravenhill

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!
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Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.
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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 question isn't were you challenged. The question is were you changed?
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Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
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I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.
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Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion
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If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.
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Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!
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I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.
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Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.
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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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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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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 brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.
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If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.
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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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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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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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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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