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The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.

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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The most shattering thought I've ever had is my personal accountability to God one day
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Gethsemane is where He died the cross is only the evidence.
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A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.
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Redemption is a magnificent thing ..the life of God in the soul of man
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Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
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I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.
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I want to so live that God doesn't have to have to give me one minute's
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There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.
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When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.
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The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.
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We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity wickedness is now weakness devilry is now deficiency.
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As long as we are content to live without revival, we will.
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Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them.
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Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice! It's not a glamous gospel ,but a bloody gospel, a gory gospel, and a sacrificial gospel! 5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more, prayed more, given more!!!
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If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!
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The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.
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Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.
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Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!
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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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