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Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
Preaching
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Passion

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The question isn't were you challenged. The question is were you changed?
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The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.
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In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.
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If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.
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The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!
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A Christian who isn't praying, is only playing!
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We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.
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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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Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in 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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There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.
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Gethsemane is where He died the cross is only the evidence.
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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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I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.
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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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Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
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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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Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.
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