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The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.

Leonard Ravenhill

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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