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“The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world and make him holy, then put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“But you know if God should stamp eternity or even judgment on our eyeballs, or if you’d like on the fleshy table of our hearts I am quite convinced we’d be a very, very different tribe of people, God’s people, in the world today. We live too much in time, we’re too earth bound. We see as other men see, we think as other men think. We invest our time as the world invests it. We're supposed to be a different breed of people. I believe that the church of Jesus Christ needs a new revelation of the majesty of God. We’re all going to stand one day, can you imagine it- at the judgment seat of Christ to give an account for the deeds done in the body. This is what- this is the King of kings, and He’s the Judge of judges, and it’s the Tribunal of tribunals, and there’s no court of appeal after it. The verdict is final.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“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”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“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?”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Revival God's Way

“A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“To copy copies is not normally safe, but it is safe to copy Paul, for he was fully surrendered, wholly sanctified, completely satisfied,”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“there is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed. 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). The fact beats ceaselessly into my brain these”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“Set not your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. He changes not! Live nearer to Christ than to any person on this earth; so that when they are taken, you may have Him to love and lean upon.”
― Robert Murray McCheyne

“I once was a stranger to grace and to God,
I knew not my danger, and felt not my load;
Though friends spoke in rapture of Christ on the tree,
Jehovah Tsidkenu was nothing to me.

I oft read with pleasure, to sooth or engage,
Isaiah’s wild measure and John’s simple page;
But e’en when they pictured the blood sprinkled tree
Jehovah Tsidkenu seemed nothing to me.

Like tears from the daughters of Zion that roll,
I wept when the waters went over His soul;
Yet thought not that my sins had nailed to the tree
Jehovah Tsidkenu—’twas nothing to me.

When free grace awoke me, by light from on high,
Then legal fears shook me, I trembled to die;
No refuge, no safety in self could I see—
Jehovah Tsidkenu my Saviour must be.

My terrors all vanished before the sweet Name;
My guilty fears banished, with boldness I came
To drink at the fountain, life giving and free—
Jehovah Tsidkenu is all things to me.

Jehovah Tsidkenu! my treasure and boast,
Jehovah Tsidkenu! I ne’er can be lost;
In Thee I shall conquer by flood and by field,
My cable, my anchor, my breast-plate and shield!

Even treading the valley, the shadow of death,
This “watchword” shall rally my faltering breath;
For while from life’s fever my God sets me free,
Jehovah Tsidkenu, my death song shall be.”
― Robert Murray McCheyne

“The Christian should never worry about tomorrow or give sparingly because of a possible future need. Only the present moment is ours to serve the Lord, and tomorrow may never come...Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.”
― George Mueller, The Autobiography of George Müller a Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself Vol I

“According to my judgement the most important point to be attended to is this: above all things see to it that your souls are happy in the Lord. Other things may press upon you, the Lord's work may even have urgent claims upon your attention, but I deliberately repeat, it is of supreme and paramount importance that you should seek above all things to have your souls truly happy in God Himself! Day by day seek to make this the most important business of your life. This has been my firm and settled condition for the last five and thirty years. For the first four years after my conversion I knew not its vast importance, but now after much experience I specially commend this point to the notice of my younger brethren and sisters in Christ: the secret of all true effectual service is joy in God, having experimental acquaintance and fellowship with God Himself.”
― George Mueller

“Nine-tenths of the difficulties are
overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord's will, whatever it may be.”
― George Mueller, Answers To Prayer

“But in what way shall we attain to this settled happiness of soul? How shall we learn to enjoy God? How obtain such an all-sufficient soul-satisfying portion in him as shall enable us to let go the things of this world as vain and worthless in comparison? I answer, This happiness is to be obtained through the study of the Holy Scriptures. God has therein revealed Himself unto us in the face of Jesus Christ.”
― George Mueller

“To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone.”
― D.L. Moody

“Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training.”
― D.L. Moody

“When I pray, I talk to God, but when I read the Bible, God is talking to me; and it is really more important that God should speak to me than that I should speak to Him I believe we should know better how to pray if we knew our Bibles better. What is an army good for if they don’t know how to use their weapons?”
― D.L. Moody, Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study

“A man acquainted with God has more power than any earthly potentate. Gold can’t do everything.”
― D.L. Moody, Men of the Bible

“Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small that God is in.”
― D.L. Moody

“It is a comforting thing to know that the Lord will not begin the good work without also finishing it.”
― D.L. Moody, Mornings With Moody - 365 Days of Devotion

“(D.L. Moody, who said in his dying days)In a little while you will read in the newspaper that I am dead. Do not believe a word of it, for I will be more alive than ever before.”
― Karen Kingsbury, A Time to Dance

“God makes a promise; Faith believes it; Hope anticipates it; and Patience quietly awaits it.”
― D.L. Moody, Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study

“As D.L. Moody said, “A holy life will make the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they just shine.”
― Terrie Chappell, The Choice is Yours: Life Happens. Walking with God is a decision.