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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.
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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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The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
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Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.
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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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