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Prayer is no substitute for work equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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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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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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