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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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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 does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
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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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It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.
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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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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.
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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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Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.
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Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.
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The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
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Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.
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Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
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If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
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One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
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To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.
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Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us. The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.
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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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