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When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
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If we don't come apart we will come apart.
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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
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One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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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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