"These are the most amazing breeds of men...prophets! By the very nature of their calling...a prophet is a tragic figure. Because he has his eyes on the majesty and holiness of God, and he has his eyes on the corrupt generation that can’t be moved except God comes and does some miraculous thing; and he’s in torment! He suffers for the people, he suffers with the people, he suffers by the people. These men don’t sleep normally, they don’t eat normally, they don’t think normally. They’ve an utter contempt for materialism. They have no price tag...You’ll never find a prophet swaggering. He carries the burden of God, he knows the heart of God, he knows the mind of God, he has the fear of God, he has the love of God, he’s consumed with the desire to be consumed by God. He’s the total property in his thinking, in his living, in his sleeping, in his everything he’s the property of God." (Leonard Ravenhill - "A Three-Fold Vision")
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