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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.

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable it is our duty to make it available.
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A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.
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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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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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One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
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