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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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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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There’s a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.
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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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The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
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My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.
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Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.
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The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
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To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.
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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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The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!
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Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins.
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You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.
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The most shattering thought I've ever had is my personal accountability to God one day
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Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.
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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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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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Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.
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This silly world outside thinks it is finished with Jesus Christ but they haven't even started with Him yet.
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The only power that God yields to is that of prayer.
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Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
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