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If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

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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Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.
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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
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Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
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We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.
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I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
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The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.
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Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
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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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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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The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
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Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.
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The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.
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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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Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.
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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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You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.
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Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.
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