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Vance Havner Inspirational Quotes (197)

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God isn't a talent scout looking for someone who is good enough or strong enough. He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.
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It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.
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No life is great that does not point to Christ.
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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
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Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
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A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
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Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.
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The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
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We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience
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You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
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I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.
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Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
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A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
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To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
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We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.
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We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.
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There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
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God's Word is its own best argument.
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Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.
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We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.
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The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
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A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.
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When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.
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