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The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation.
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God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!
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Never have so many left so much to so few.
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The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.
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Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?
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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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Prayer is no substitute for work equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.
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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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At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!
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To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.
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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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A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.
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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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Praying Christians know nothing of their friends
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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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If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.
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We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.
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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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