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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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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're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity wickedness is now weakness devilry is now deficiency.
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Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.
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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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When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.
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All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.
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If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.
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If I don't believe the Word of God, why should you believe it? If we don't believe it, why should the world believe us?
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As long as we are content to live without revival, we will.
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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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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 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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The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.
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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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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 Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.
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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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My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.
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We are not eternity conscious enough.
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The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world. The question is not whether they know the Word of God.... The question is......Do they know the God of the Word?
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