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We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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God asks the best we have Because He gave the Best He had.
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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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I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?
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Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.
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Gethsemane is where He died the cross is only the evidence.
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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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I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.
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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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The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.
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Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.
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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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It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying.
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Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.
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The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
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Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.
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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 highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.
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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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The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.
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My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.
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