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The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
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One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
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The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.
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The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.
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I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.
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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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What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.
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A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
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If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.
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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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Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.
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The alternative to discipline is disaster
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In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
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The detour is always rougher than the main road
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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
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The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.
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A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
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There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
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