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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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It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying.
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Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice! It's not a glamous gospel ,but a bloody gospel, a gory gospel, and a sacrificial gospel! 5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more, prayed more, given more!!!
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Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.
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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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We are not eternity conscious enough.
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My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.
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God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!
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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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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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In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.
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Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated.
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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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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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When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
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Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.
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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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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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There's one thing we need above everything else it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.
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If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.
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The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
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