Leonard Ravenhill Quotes About Christianity
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The longer I live, the more I find I don't know
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Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.
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Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.
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Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish.
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Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.
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Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions
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If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?
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I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.
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No man is greater than his prayer life.
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Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.
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The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.
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You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
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Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.
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My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list.
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Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?
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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.
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Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians
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The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
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The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth.
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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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An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing
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We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
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Christianity is Christ plus nothing!
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The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!
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Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.
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Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting. It's being tried, found difficult and rejected!
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Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.
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Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man's God comes and lives inside of Him!
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If there are a million roads into hell, there's not one road out.
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The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete.
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