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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
Clergyman
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Plainfield
New Jersey
Christian
School
Knees
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Knowledge

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Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
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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 devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
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Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.
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I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
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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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God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
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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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I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.
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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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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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The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
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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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God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.
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Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition
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