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If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!
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Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.
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People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.
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Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
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He who waits on God loses no time.
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To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.
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When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.
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God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, Children, be like your parents. Jesus said, Parents, be like your children.
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No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.
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It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.
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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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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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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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Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
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We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.
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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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