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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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The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
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Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man's God comes and lives inside of Him!
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Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.
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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.
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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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The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.
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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 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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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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Praying Christians know nothing of their friends
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The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.
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The darker it gets, the brighter your light will shine.
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Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.
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Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
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Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish.
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