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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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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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It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.
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In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
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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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Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
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If we don't come apart we will come apart.
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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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No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.
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Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.
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Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
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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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A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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We need to take down our Do not disturb signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.
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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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Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.
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He who waits on God loses no time.
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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
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