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Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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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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God asks the best we have Because He gave the Best He had.
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When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.
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A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.
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LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!
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