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The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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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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I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church and sin-- it's a monstrous problem.
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The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
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The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.
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What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell.
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Praying Christians know nothing of their friends
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I believe the place of prayer is not only a place where I lose my burdens, but also a place where I get a burden. He shares my burden and I share His burden. ... To know that burden, we must hear the voice of the Spirit. To hear that voice, we must be still and know that He is God.
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The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll and no man can cross another's name off that roll.
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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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What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?
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A saint is good when nobody is looking.
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A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.
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Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.
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Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
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If I don't believe the Word of God, why should you believe it? If we don't believe it, why should the world believe us?
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If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.
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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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God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.
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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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