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What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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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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Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
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Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.
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When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
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