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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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When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.
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We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism we died with Christ and rose to new life.
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Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.
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If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.
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Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
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We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.
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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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It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
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A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
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We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.
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If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
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Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.
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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
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The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
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Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us. The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.
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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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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
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People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.
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