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

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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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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One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
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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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A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
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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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God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!
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The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.
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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.
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Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.
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The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
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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 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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Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
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We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.
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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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