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The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.
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You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.
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Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.
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Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.
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It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.
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A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.
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