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If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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Plainfield
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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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You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.
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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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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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It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable it is our duty to make it available.
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When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
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