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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.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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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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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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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
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A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
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People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.
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Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.
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Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.
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You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
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Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.
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We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.
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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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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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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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You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.
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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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It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable it is our duty to make it available.
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