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Christianity Quotes by Leonard Ravenhill

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Leonard Ravenhill warns that Christianity needs a fresh demonstration, not a new definition. He says many people claim faith but lack true seriousness, and he grieves over a Church that tolerates sin and neglects prayer. The quotes contrast those who are dead in sin with those who are dead to sin.

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The longer I live, the more I find I don't know

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The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.

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Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians

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An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing

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The world doesn´t believe the Bible, Christians don´t obey the Bible.

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Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.

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If there are a million roads into hell, there's not one road out.

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My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list.

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I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.

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In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

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If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

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There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.

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I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!

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Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.

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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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The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!

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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…

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The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course,…

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If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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“I have said before that one of these days, someone will read the Bible for the first time, believe it, and act…

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The attitude of the average Christian today is relax and be raptured. But He is coming... and when God gets angry you´ve…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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You know, we're the most undisciplined generation the world has ever knownhow many of you are disciplined? How many go to bed…

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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…

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The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete.

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Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

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Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions

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Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility.

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Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!

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Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.

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Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

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No man is greater than his prayer life.

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Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?

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Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

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Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God.

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We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.

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If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and so preached,…

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

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“Who or what takes priority over God in our lives?”

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Get rid of this bunkum about the 'carnal Christian'. Forget it! If you're carnal, you're not saved.

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Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are…

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I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has…

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

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The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers…

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Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

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You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.

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I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!

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What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them;…

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