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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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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.
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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 have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.
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When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!
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The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.
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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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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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Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.
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Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.
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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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Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
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The alternative to discipline is disaster
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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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We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.
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I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.
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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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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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Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.
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