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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.
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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
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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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Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.
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The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.
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More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.
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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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Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.
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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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We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.
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The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.
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The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.
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Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.
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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
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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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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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We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience
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When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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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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