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Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
Clergyman
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Plainfield
New Jersey
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Righteousness
Christianity
Fear
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We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
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A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.
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