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“My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, "Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, "If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, "I don't wish to have a coward as a husband.”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Tortured for Christ

“Even the best of Christians are troubled by the question, "Why does an almighty God send, or at least allow, suffering?" When you are nagged by thoughts like this, say to yourself, "I am still in elementary school. When I graduate from the university of Christian life, I will understand His ways better and doubts will cease.”
― Richard Wurmbrand

“A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. ”
― Leonard Ravenhill

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

“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

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

“Beginning to sense his call to preach boldly in dangerous situations even though he was young and slight, the author agreed to go only if God would give him a particular sense of His presence. The next morning, the author says it was as if God took out his human eyes and replaced them with God's own because he saw other people so much more vividly.”
― K.P. Yohannan, Revolution In World Missions

“Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.”
― K.P. Yohannan, Living in the Light of Eternity: Discovering God's Design for Your Life