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A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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New Jersey
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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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We need to take down our Do not disturb signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.
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There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!
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People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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The alternative to discipline is disaster
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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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More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.
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He who waits on God loses no time.
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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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Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
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Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
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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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Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
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Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.
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Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
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Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.
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