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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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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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We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.
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I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church and sin-- it's a monstrous problem.
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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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We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)
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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?
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We are not eternity conscious enough.
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Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.
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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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The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
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The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.
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The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.
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I believe the place of prayer is not only a place where I lose my burdens, but also a place where I get a burden. He shares my burden and I share His burden. ... To know that burden, we must hear the voice of the Spirit. To hear that voice, we must be still and know that He is God.
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The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
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You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
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We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.
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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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My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.
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Church unity comes from corporate humility.
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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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