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A Christian who isn't praying, is only playing!

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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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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Redemption is a magnificent thing ..the life of God in the soul of man
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At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!
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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 world has lost the power to blush over its vice the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
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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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I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.
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Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.
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You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
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I want to see the glory of God invade this generation.
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Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.
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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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There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.
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We are not eternity conscious enough.
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When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.
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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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One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.
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I believe the place of prayer is not only a place where I lose my burdens, but also a place where I get a burden. He shares my burden and I share His burden. ... To know that burden, we must hear the voice of the Spirit. To hear that voice, we must be still and know that He is God.
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Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
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It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying.
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