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The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.

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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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There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a good solider of Jesus Christ. There is a prize to possess, but before we possess it there is a price to be paid, and few will pay it.
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No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.
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God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.
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God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, Children, be like your parents. Jesus said, Parents, be like your children.
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What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.
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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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God's Word is its own best argument.
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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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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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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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People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.
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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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You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.
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In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
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The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.
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One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
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Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
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Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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