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

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.
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You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
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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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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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I think one of the serious breakdowns in modern evangelism is this: it has offered too much for too little. What we do mostly is offer forgiveness. We need cleansing! There is no true conversion until a man takes up his cross.
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The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.
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Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.
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God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.
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The only vision (many) of you have is television.
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You won't become a saint by studying your Bible you'll become a saint by living it.
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Praying Christians know nothing of their friends
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He who fears God fears no man.
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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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When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
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By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.
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We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity wickedness is now weakness devilry is now deficiency.
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Preaching affects men prayer affects God. Preaching affects time prayer affects eternity
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We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. 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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Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.
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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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