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We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets

Leonard Ravenhill

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Leonard Ravenhill
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: June 18
Died: 1994
Died: November 27
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When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
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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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The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.
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Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?
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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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Every step you make in Jesus Christ enrages the devil.
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Some preachers master thier subjects some subjects master the preacher once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of, and also mastered by his subject. The apostle Paul, I am sure, was in that category.
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I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history let's make (some) by the grace of God
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The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.
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Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.
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Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.
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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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This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
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There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.
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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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We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.
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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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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 man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.
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