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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
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What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.
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We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
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Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
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He who waits on God loses no time.
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When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
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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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I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!
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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
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Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
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When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.
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One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
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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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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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There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
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