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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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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.
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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.
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The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.
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We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.
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Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.
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At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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We are challenged these days, but not changed convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not and thereby we deceive ourselves.
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