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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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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.
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No life is great that does not point to Christ.
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We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.
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We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to grow in grace and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
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God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.
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The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.
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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
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Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
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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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Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
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I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.
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The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
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Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
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