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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
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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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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
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Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
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People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.
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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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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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Today I am one day nearer Home than ever before.
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We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to grow in grace and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.
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Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
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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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The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
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Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . Not I, but Christ.
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No life is great that does not point to Christ.
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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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Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
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Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.
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When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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