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It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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New Jersey
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A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.
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The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
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Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.
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What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.
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At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
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Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.
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We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.
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No life is great that does not point to Christ.
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Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.
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Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.
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The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.
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We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.
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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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We are challenged these days, but not changed convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not and thereby we deceive ourselves.
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To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
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The detour is always rougher than the main road
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Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
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