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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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Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?
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Easy believeism dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die on. Let those who will not pay this price leave it alone!
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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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The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.
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Praying Christians know nothing of their friends
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Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated.
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We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.
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Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?
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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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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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You won't become a saint by studying your Bible you'll become a saint by living it.
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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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We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets
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Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.
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You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
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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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As long as we are content to live without revival, we will.
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The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
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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 wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church and sin-- it's a monstrous problem.
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