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My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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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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The longer I live, the more I find I don't know
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The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
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Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them.
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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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Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?
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Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.
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Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.
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Some preachers master thier subjects some subjects master the preacher once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of, and also mastered by his subject. The apostle Paul, I am sure, was in that category.
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Great eagles fly alone great lions hunt alone great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.
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He who fears God fears no man.
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Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish.
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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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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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We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.
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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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Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.
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Gethsemane is where He died the cross is only the evidence.
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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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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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