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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!

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.
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A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.
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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
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A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
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You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
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People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.
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I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.
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