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Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.

Leonard Ravenhill

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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Every step you make in Jesus Christ enrages the devil.
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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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The only reason we don't have revival is because we are willing to live without it!
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God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!
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The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world. The question is not whether they know the Word of God.... The question is......Do they know the God of the Word?
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Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.
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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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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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Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.
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A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.
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Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
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