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The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

Leonard Ravenhill

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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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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Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.
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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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I want to see the glory of God invade this generation.
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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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Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.
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We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.
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The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.
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The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.
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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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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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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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The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
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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 more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.
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We are not eternity conscious enough.
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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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Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation.
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If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.
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The question isn't were you challenged. The question is were you changed?
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