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Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
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The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.
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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
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If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
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What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.
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We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.
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If we don't come apart we will come apart.
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We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience
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There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.
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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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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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God's Word is its own best argument.
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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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When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.
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God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!
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One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, Make yourself at home.
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There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.
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If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.
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Many people have the right aim in life, they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs.
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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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