Ron Hall Quotes

• Seemed like they didn’t have nothin to give, but they was givin what they had, taken the time to knock on God’s front door and ask Him to heal this woman that loved them.

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• Everybody’s look in for God everywhere on the outside. He ain’t in no book, and He ain’t in no preacher, and He ain’t in nothin or no one on the outside. You got to go inside ’cause that’s where God is- in the deepest place inside you.

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• And ain’t nobody gon’ make God tell you nothin. Ain’t nobody gon’ have no wisdome ’bout nothin if they thinks they can read ’bout it or hear about it from some man or woman.

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• That got to come from revelation. That got to come from the Holy Spirit inside us, and that ain’t somethin that can be bargained for. You can’t achieve revelation. You can’t work for what’s free.

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• Bein’ a friend is a heavy commitment. In a way, even more than a husband or wife…. Friendship to me means more than just somebody to talk to, or run with, or hang with.

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• The pain of losing Deborah still brings tears. And I cannot mask my profound disappointment that God did not answer yes to our prayers for healing. I think He’s okay with that.

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•  One of the phrases we evangelicals like to throw around is that Christianity is ‘not a religion; it’s a relationship.’

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• I believe that, which is why I know that when my faith was shattered and raged against Him, He still accepted me. And even though I have penciled a black mark in His column, I can be honest about it. That’s what a relationship is all about.

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• Jesus don’t need no help from no perfect saints. If He did, He wouldn’t a’ gone up yonder and left us down here in charge.

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• If the devil ain’t messin with you, he’s already got you. If you is waitin to clean up your own life before you get out and help somebody else, you may as well take off your shoes and crawl back in the bed ’cause it ain’t never gon’ happen.

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• The hell of it was, Mr. Ballantine never wanted a friend, especially a black one. But once Denver committed, he stuck. It reminded me of what Jesus told His disciples ‘Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

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• I ain’t saying it ain’t all right to study the Bible. You got to study the Bible to know the rules of life. But I notice a Lotta folks doing more looking at the Bible than doing what it says.

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• For the first time, it struck me that when Denver said he’d be my friend for life, he meant it-for better or for worse.

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• Even though I’m almost seventy years old, I got a lot to learn, too. I used to spend a lotta time worryin that I was different from other people, even from other homeless folks.

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• Joined the circle and prayed with these men who seemed on the outside to have nothing to give but had been giving, without our knowing it, the most precious gift of all: compassion.

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• The truth about it is, whether we rich or poor or somethin in between, this earth ain’t no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless–just workin our way toward home.

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• The Word says God put ever star in the heavens and even give ever one of em a name. If one of em was gon’ fall out the sky, that was up to Him, too. Maybe we can’t see where it’s gon’ wind up, be He can.

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• Wounded and nearly blind with fear, I clung to the Scriptures: ‘Ask and you shall receive…’ ‘Pray without ceasing…’ ‘I will do whatever you ask for in My name…’ Grimly, I shut out another verse, this one from the book of Job: ‘The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

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• But if you is looking for a real friend, then I’ll be one. Forever.

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• Then, after I met Miss Debbie and Mr. Ron, I worried that I was so different from them that we wadn’t ever gon’ have no kind a’ future. But I found out everybody’s different–the same kind of different as me. We’re all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.

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Ron Hall (57)

Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Volunteer

About

Denver was born in rural Louisiana in January 1937, and after several tragic events went to live on a plantation in Red River Parish with his Uncle James and Aunt Ethel, who were share croppers. Sometime around 1960, he hopped a freight train and began a life as a homeless drifter until 1966 when a judge awarded him a 10 year contract for hard labor at the Louisiana State School of Fools, aka, Angola Prison!

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