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You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
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A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
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Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.
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The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
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We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.
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Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
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If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.
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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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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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What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.
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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!
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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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A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
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