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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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What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell.
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Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?
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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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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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The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.
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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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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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The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
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A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.
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The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
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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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He who fears God fears no man.
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I want to see the glory of God invade this generation.
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A saint is good when nobody is looking.
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The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.
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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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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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God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!
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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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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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