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God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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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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If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
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When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.
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Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.
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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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The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!
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The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.
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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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LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!
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Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.
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We are not eternity conscious enough.
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Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.
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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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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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We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
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If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.
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This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
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The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete.
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No church group that knows spiritual warfare has wiener roasts or even passion plays. There is a real warfare. I have said before that we are an arrogant, self-styled bunch of believers. We believe to the point of inconvenience - and then quit.
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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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