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If we don't come apart we will come apart.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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New Jersey
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There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.
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Satan is not fighting churches he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
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The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
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I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
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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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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
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Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.
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If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
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The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.
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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.
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A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
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The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.
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Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition
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The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.
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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.
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