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The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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No church group that knows spiritual warfare has wiener roasts or even passion plays. There is a real warfare. I have said before that we are an arrogant, self-styled bunch of believers. We believe to the point of inconvenience - and then quit.
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The world has lost the power to blush over its vice the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
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Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken when they had prayed, the place was shaken!
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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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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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The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.
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The attitude of the average Christian today is relax and be raptured. But He is coming... and when God gets angry you´ve no idea what it is. Like a thousand volcanoes exploding. He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world and the poor blindworld doesn´t know much about it and the poor blind church doesn´t think much about it now.
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A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.
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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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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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I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.
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Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.
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If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.
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We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets
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Great eagles fly alone great lions hunt alone great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.
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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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The only power that God yields to is that of prayer.
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You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
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We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.
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The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll and no man can cross another's name off that roll.
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