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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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If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
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Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.
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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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No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
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You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
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What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.
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It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable it is our duty to make it available.
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What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!
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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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The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
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If we don't come apart we will come apart.
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Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.
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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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Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.
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We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.
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The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.
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Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.
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