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The alternative to discipline is disaster
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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New Jersey
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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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We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?
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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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He who waits on God loses no time.
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We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.
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There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!
Vance Havner
Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
Vance Havner
If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
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What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
Vance Havner
It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
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We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
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Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, Children, be like your parents. Jesus said, Parents, be like your children.
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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
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Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
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The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
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Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
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You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
Vance Havner