Leonard Ravenhill Quotes About Church
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The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
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Someone asked me, 'Do you pray for the dead?' I said, 'No, I preach to them! I think every pew in every church is death row. Think about that! They're dead! They sing about God; they talk about God, but they're dead! They have no living relationship (with God).
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If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.
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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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Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.
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Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.
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I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.
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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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The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
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The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.
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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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The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll; and no man can cross another's name off that roll.
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The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!
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The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.
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But have we Holy Ghost power — power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds, and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?
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The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
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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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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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When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
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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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The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’
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The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'
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One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.
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Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated.
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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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Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.
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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 need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.
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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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The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.
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