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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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Satan is not fighting churches he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.
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I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.
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Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
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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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You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
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Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.
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We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.
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It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.
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Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.
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Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.
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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
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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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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 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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The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
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The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
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