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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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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.
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The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
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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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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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The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.
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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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The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.
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The most shattering thought I've ever had is my personal accountability to God one day
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Never have so many left so much to so few.
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There's one thing we need above everything else it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.
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The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!
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Are you wiser in God (now) than you were last year at this time? Peter says we're to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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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 believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.
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We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity wickedness is now weakness devilry is now deficiency.
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Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.
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The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.
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The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth.
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You can have all of your doctrines right—yet still not have the presence of God.
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Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.
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