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No life is great that does not point to Christ.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
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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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Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
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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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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
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Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
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Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
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Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
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Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
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One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, Make yourself at home.
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We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.
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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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To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
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Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . Not I, but Christ.
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