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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 efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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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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One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
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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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To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
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It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.
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The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.
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When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.
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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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If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.
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The alternative to discipline is disaster
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God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
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If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
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If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.
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