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The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

Leonard Ravenhill

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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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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God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.
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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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The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.
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A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.
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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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I think one of the serious breakdowns in modern evangelism is this: it has offered too much for too little. What we do mostly is offer forgiveness. We need cleansing! There is no true conversion until a man takes up his cross.
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Redemption is a magnificent thing ..the life of God in the soul of man
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One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.
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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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I want to see the glory of God invade this generation.
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It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross.
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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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We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.
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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 Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!
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I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history let's make (some) by the grace of God
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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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God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.
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A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.
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