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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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Plainfield
New Jersey
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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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God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.
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We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.
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A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
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One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
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Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?
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Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
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Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
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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 temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
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What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.
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The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
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There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.
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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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A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
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God isn't a talent scout looking for someone who is good enough or strong enough. He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.
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A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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