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Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies.

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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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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Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken when they had prayed, the place was shaken!
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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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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't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
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Easy believeism dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die on. Let those who will not pay this price leave it alone!
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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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I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.
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Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.
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Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
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Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice! It's not a glamous gospel ,but a bloody gospel, a gory gospel, and a sacrificial gospel! 5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more, prayed more, given more!!!
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We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.
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Gethsemane is where He died the cross is only the evidence.
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If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.
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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 highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.
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