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We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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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 you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
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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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What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!
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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
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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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A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
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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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Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.
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The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.
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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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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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I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
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