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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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All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.
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Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.
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A saint is good when nobody is looking.
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Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.
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Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
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The darker it gets, the brighter your light will shine.
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God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.
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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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Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested.
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You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.
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There’s a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.
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Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.
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Gethsemane is where He died the cross is only the evidence.
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Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them.
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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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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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We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.
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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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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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Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!
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