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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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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!
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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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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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What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?
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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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The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
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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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