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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.

Leonard Ravenhill

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.
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The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!
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Preaching affects men prayer affects God. Preaching affects time prayer affects eternity
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Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.
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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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We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)
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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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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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The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.
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This silly world outside thinks it is finished with Jesus Christ but they haven't even started with Him yet.
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At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!
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I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.
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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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Praying Christians know nothing of their friends
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Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.
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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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No faith is required to do the possible actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of.
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We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets
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Church unity comes from corporate humility.
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He who fears God fears no man.
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