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Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.

Leonard Ravenhill

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.
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Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.
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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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Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
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My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.
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Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.
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We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity wickedness is now weakness devilry is now deficiency.
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Christ cared enough for sinners to die for them. Do we care enough for sinners to live to reach them?
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Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them.
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Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.
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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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Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.
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The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.
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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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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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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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A saint is good when nobody is looking.
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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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We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.
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The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers is considered a go-getter, but to urge our young people to rise at 5:30 to pray is considered fanaticism. We must once again wear the harness of discipline. There is no other way.
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