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I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history let's make (some) by the grace of God

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)
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A Christian who isn't praying, is only playing!
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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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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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I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.
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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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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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We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.
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God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.
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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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Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.
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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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There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.
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I want to so live that God doesn't have to have to give me one minute's
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Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?
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There’s a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.
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The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!
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Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested.
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Christ cared enough for sinners to die for them. Do we care enough for sinners to live to reach them?
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