Top 100 Quotes About Ravenhill
#2. Sodom, which had no Bible, no preachers, no tracts, no prayer meetings, no churches, perished. How then will America and England be spared from the wrath of the Almighty, think you? We have millions of Bibles, scores of thousands of churches, endless preachers - and yet what sin!
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#3. We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology
iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.
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#4. Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.
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#5. I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God
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#7. I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.
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#8. How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?
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#9. 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.
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#10. If Jesus came back today, he wouldn't cleanse the temple, he'd cleanse the pulpit.
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#11. Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
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#12. 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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#13. Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.
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#14. Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal
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#15. Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.
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#16. I want to so live that God doesn't have to have to give me one minute's
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#17. 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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#19. I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.
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#20. The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.
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#21. 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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#22. While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary.
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#23. When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it legalism.
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#24. If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.
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#26. 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.
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#27. Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
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#29. A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.
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#30. Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.
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#32. They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should be the attitudes of every believer. That's the normal Christian life, not the abnormal Christian life. The normal Christian life is holiness.
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#33. You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
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#37. A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
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#38. The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.
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#39. we see Jesus most clearly in the hard times - when we cannot make it unless He helps us.
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#40. There's a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.
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#41. Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians
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#45. Holiness is not a luxury, it's a necessity. If you're not holy, you'll never make it to Heaven [Heb. 12:14].
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#46. A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.
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#48. LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!
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#49. To copy copies is not normally safe, but it is safe to copy Paul, for he was fully surrendered, wholly sanctified, completely satisfied,
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#50. If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!
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#52. The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.
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#53. Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord.
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#55. 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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#56. 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.
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#57. We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.
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#58. 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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#60. 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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#61. I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!
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#62. We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.
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#63. Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.
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#68. The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God!
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#70. In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.
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#71. Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.
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#72. I think one of the serious breakdowns in modern evangelism is this: it has offered too much for too little. What we do mostly is offer forgiveness. We need cleansing! There is no true conversion until a man takes up his cross.
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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.
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#76. Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.
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#77. If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.
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#79. Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.
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#80. When are people finally going to get serious about being serious?
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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life.
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#84. Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.
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#85. Get rid of this bunkum about the 'carnal Christian'. Forget it! If you're carnal, you're not saved.
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#87. You can have all of your doctrines right - yet still not have the presence of God.
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#88. Are you wiser in God (now) than you were last year at this time? Peter says we're to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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#89. If there are a million roads into hell, there's not one road out.
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#90. We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.
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#91. The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
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#93. The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'
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#95. The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?
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#96. A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.
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#98. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)
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#99. If we will do God's work in God's way at God's time with God's power, we shall have God's blessing
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