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

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
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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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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.
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People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.
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Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
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Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.
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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.
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When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.
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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
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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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If we don't come apart we will come apart.
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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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If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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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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We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.
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Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.
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