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The following are excerpts from Leonard Ravenhill's "Heart Breathings." They were posted on www.ravenhill.org.

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

Are the things we are living for
worth Christ's dying for?

There can be no leadership of Christ
without the Lordship of Christ.

We have substituted "the Bible says"
for what the Bible does.

If men would read their Bibles more,
They would need to read us writers less.

Ponder what the "Heroes of Faith" did without
a Bible! (Heb. 11)
Consider how little we do having the full
Revelation of Divine Truth.

The Bible is not just a series of puzzles to be deciphered,
it is a chain of commandments to be obeyed.

Five minutes of Divine revelation might
be more illuminating
than five years of Bible school instruction.

Faith is either dead earnest or just dead.

God will test the faith He is going to trust.

"Faith" takes the guesswork out of tomorrow.
It confidently boasts, "My times are in Thy hands."

Too many of us want to make a peace treaty
with Christ, but will not make a total surrender
to Christ.

A secret of victory:
- To do what God wants me to do;
- To do it as He wants it to be done;
- To do it when He wants it done.

We are, each of us, as spiritual
as we want to be.
The throttle is in our own hands.

Knowledge is not character, but character is
developed from knowledge and obedience.

Spiritual maturity comes not by book knowledge
but by strict compliance to the revealed
will of God.

The Beatitudes should really "be" attitudes
of the Christian's life.

Christ has not conquered my affections
if He has to compete for my attention.