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To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

Vance Havner

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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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Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
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Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
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Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
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We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
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Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.
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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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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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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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A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.
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If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
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Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us. The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.
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The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.
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A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
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The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.
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Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
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