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Vance Havner Inspirational Quotes (197)

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One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, Make yourself at home.
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In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
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Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
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The alternative to discipline is disaster
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What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.
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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
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God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, Children, be like your parents. Jesus said, Parents, be like your children.
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If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.
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What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!
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The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.
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What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.
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Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.
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We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
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When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.
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Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.
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We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?
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More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.
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Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.
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Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
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Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
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