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When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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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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We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets
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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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The only reason we don't have revival is because we are willing to live without it!
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A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.
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There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.
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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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Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.
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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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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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At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!
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A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.
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By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.
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The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
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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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The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.
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I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.
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The question isn't were you challenged. The question is were you changed?
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If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.
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We are not eternity conscious enough.
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