Leonard Ravenhill Quotes - Page 5

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• Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!

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  Taken, Anxiety, Church

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• You can have all of your doctrines right—yet still not have the presence of God.

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  Doctrine, Presence Of God, Stills

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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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  Passion, Men, Preaching

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• Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested.

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  Trusted, Tested

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• To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along with tears. Can one be moved with compassion and not know tears? Jeremiah was a sobbing saint. Jesus wept! So did Paul. So did John. Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern Christianity, praying is foreign.

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  Jesus, Strong, Prayer

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• To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.

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  Prayer, Men, Different

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• The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Power helpeth our infirmity in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Life ends our deadness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Wisdom delivers us from ignorance in this holy art ofprayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Fire delivers us from coldness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Might comes to our aid in our weakness as we pray.

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  Art, Prayer, Ignorance

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• Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God.

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  Heart, Giving, Clean

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• Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church—with prayer and meditation?

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  Prayer, Makeup, Clothes

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• Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.

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  Prayer, Men, Steel

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.85, Bethany House

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• I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.

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  God, Faith, Christian

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• If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong!

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  Christian, World, Tribulation

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• The secret of praying is praying in secret.

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  Prayer, Secret, Praying

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.150, Bethany House

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• One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say `I cast out devils, and Jesus will say `I never knew you.

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  Jesus, Devil, Judgment

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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.

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  Church, Vices, World

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• In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.

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  Church, Want, New Testament

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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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  Soul, Use, Truth Is

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.30, Bethany House

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• Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Church, Want

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• This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!

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  Rooms, Life Is, Eternity

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• A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.

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  Shepherds, Doe, Way

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• Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.

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  Night, Earth, Hell

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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!'

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  Book, Winning, Past

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• John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.

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  Miracle, Baptists, Christianity

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• Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.

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  Risk, Doe, Three

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• A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons

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  Dry, Preacher, Sermons

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