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Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.

Leonard Ravenhill

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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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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If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.
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The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
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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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Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.
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I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!
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Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
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The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.
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Every step you make in Jesus Christ enrages the devil.
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The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.
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Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.
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The first essential for the coming of the Holy Ghost into a heart today is that the heart should be cleansed from sin, for the Holy Spirit does not fill an unclean heart. What God has cleansed, He then fills. Finally, whom God fills, He uses. A holy life is the authentic sign of being filled with the Spirit.
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There's one thing we need above everything else it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.
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Great eagles fly alone great lions hunt alone great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.
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If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.
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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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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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A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.
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God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.
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The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
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