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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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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.
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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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Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
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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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If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.
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Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.
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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
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Satan is not fighting churches he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.
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There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.
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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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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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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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To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
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We are challenged these days, but not changed convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not and thereby we deceive ourselves.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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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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The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.
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