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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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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a good solider of Jesus Christ. There is a prize to possess, but before we possess it there is a price to be paid, and few will pay it.
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The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
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Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.
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Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.
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More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.
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Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
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If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
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One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
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No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.
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Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
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We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
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God's Word is its own best argument.
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The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
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The detour is always rougher than the main road
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When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.
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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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Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.
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Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
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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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We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.
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