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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're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.
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Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
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Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies.
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Never have so many left so much to so few.
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You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
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Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.
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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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We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets
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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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The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!
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The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.
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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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Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the exceeding greatness of God's power to us.
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Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.
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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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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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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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Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man's God comes and lives inside of Him!
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