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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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Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested.
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The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!
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Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the exceeding greatness of God's power to us.
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Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?
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To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.
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If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.
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The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world. The question is not whether they know the Word of God.... The question is......Do they know the God of the Word?
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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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This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!
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The first essential for the coming of the Holy Ghost into a heart today is that the heart should be cleansed from sin, for the Holy Spirit does not fill an unclean heart. What God has cleansed, He then fills. Finally, whom God fills, He uses. A holy life is the authentic sign of being filled with the Spirit.
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Every step you make in Jesus Christ enrages the devil.
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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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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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You can have all of your doctrines right—yet still not have the presence of God.
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A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.
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No faith is required to do the possible actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of.
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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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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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He who fears God fears no man.
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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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