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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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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!
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Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.
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People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.
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Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.
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No life is great that does not point to Christ.
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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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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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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
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One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
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We need to take down our Do not disturb signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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He who waits on God loses no time.
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The detour is always rougher than the main road
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Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.
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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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Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.
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A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.
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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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