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“A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Prayer #Men #Intimate
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“Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Thinking #Judgment #Christianity
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“The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Prayer #Moving #Church
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“The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world. The question is not whether they know the Word of God.... The question is......Do they know the God of the Word?”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#College #Men #Tragedy
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“If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Prayer #Night #Soul
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“It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Bears #Easier #Crosses
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“The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Prayer #Men #Church
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“The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Church #Titles #Today
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“John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Miracle #Baptists #Christianity
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“Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Christian #Men #Hands
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“Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Prayer #Gossip #Praying
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“Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Passion #Spirit #Revival
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“No man is greater than his prayer life.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Prayer #Men #Christianity
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“If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Fire #People #Hell
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“If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Holiness #Want
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“There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Two #White #People
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“Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Responsibility #Church #Want
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“No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Fashion #Prayer #Passion
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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.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Needs #Avalanches #Sin
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“Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Prayer #Moving #Exercise
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“The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Church #Vices #World
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“I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Jesus #Father #Angel
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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
#Men #Giving #People
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“The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Truth Is #Brutal
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“A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Prayer #Men #Soul
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“The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Fashion #Passion #Church
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“I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God. I read about Charles G. Finney winning his thousands and his hundreds of thousands of souls to Christ. Then I picked up a book and read the messages of Charles G. Finney and the message of Jonathan Edwards on 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,' and I said, 'No wonder men trembled; no wonder they fell in the altars and cried out in repentance and sobbed their way to the throne of grace!'”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Book #Men #Winning
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“If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Deception #Church #Way
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“Easy believeism dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die on. Let those who will not pay this price leave it alone!”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Blood #Pay #Easy
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“The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.”
-- Leonard Ravenhill
#Believe #Church #Doe
