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If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.

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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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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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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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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I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
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When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.
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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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You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.
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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
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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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It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
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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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Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
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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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An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.
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Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
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Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
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