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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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Experience
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Performances
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Christianity

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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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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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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Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
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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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I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.
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One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.
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When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.
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There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
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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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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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When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.
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God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, Children, be like your parents. Jesus said, Parents, be like your children.
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The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.
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People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.
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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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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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Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
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