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If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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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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Preaching affects men prayer affects God. Preaching affects time prayer affects eternity
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If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!
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I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.
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