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Jesus is all we have he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
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One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
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God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!
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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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Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.
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When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
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If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!
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Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
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An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.
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Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.
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Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.
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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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The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.
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To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
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We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.
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A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
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